Ex-police commander jailed for 30 years for murder of Oaxaca journalist
Ex-police commander jailed for 30 years for murder of Oaxaca journalist
New York, March 6, 2017--A court in the Mexican state Oaxaca convicted Jorge Armando Santiago Martínez of murdering Marcos Hernández Bautista, a reporter for the daily Noticias, Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed the March 3 conviction and called on authorities to prosecute all involved in the crime.
Marcos Hernández Bautista was shot dead in
January 2016. A court has jailed a former
police commander for his murder. (Noticias)
The court in Puerto Escondido sentenced Santiago Martínez, the former commander of the Santiago de Jamiltepec municipal police, at the same hearing to 30 years in prison for shooting Hernández multiple times outside a bar owned by the journalist on January 21, 2016, according to a statement by Oaxaca's attorney general's office. Santiago Martinez was ordered to pay 178,000 Mexican pesos (US$9,100) in damages to the journalist's family, according to the statement.
"We applaud Mexican authorities for this conviction in the murder of journalist Marco Hernández Bautista," said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas. "While this is an encouraging first step toward addressing anti-press violence, justice will remain incomplete until the mastermind has been apprehended. We urge Mexican authorities to identify and prosecute the intellectual author of the crime and break the cycle of deadly violence against the media."
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Hernández, who was also a freelance correspondent at La Ke Buena radio in the municipality of Pinotepa Nacional, reported on social issues and had written about protests over a planned hydro-electric dam, according to press reports. His editor at Noticias, Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca, María de los Angeles Velasco, told CPJ that he also denounced officials for land theft and corruption.
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Google translate:
Tomás Martínez Sat, 01/21/2017 - 09:36
"Son, do not write anymore, they will kill you ..."
ONE YEAR WITHOUT FRIDGES HERNÁNDEZ
"Son, do not write in the newspaper, someday they'll kill you," was the warning that reporter Marcos Hernández Bautista received from his mother, months before he was assassinated on Friday, January 21, 2016, allegedly by the Commander of the municipal police and a group of hired assassins in the service of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Professor Delfina Guzmán, former municipal president of Santiago Jamiltepec, recounts part of the anecdotes lived next to Marcos, excorresponsal of NEWS, Voice and Image of Oaxaca; A young man who is restless, indigenous, humble, but eager to get ahead and help people.
-Mamacita, you do not worry, nothing happens-was the answer to the warning of his mother.
A year without milestones
A year after his death, the family of Marcos performed prayers and this Saturday they celebrate a mass in his memory.
The teacher remembers the words of Marcos when he talked about what happened in his family and the warnings of his mother. "Son, do not write in that newspaper, someday they'll kill you, do not walk in politics anymore."
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http://www.nvinoticias.com/nota/48775/hijo-ya-no-escribas-te-van-matar
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Jorge Armando, commander of the municipal police in Santiago Jamiltepec.[/center]