Mexican journalist abducted in Michoacn state

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico City, May 22, 2017--Mexican authorities must undertake every effort to secure the safe release of journalist Salvador Adame Pardo, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Gunmen abducted Adame, director of the television station 6TV, on May 18 from the central Mexican town of Nueva Italia.

"Violence and attempts to intimidate the press in Mexico are preventing journalists from doing their jobs safely," Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas, said from New York. "We call on Mexican authorities to act quickly to ensure the safe release of Salvador Adame Pardo."

According to witnesses cited in media reports, armed men abducted Adame shortly before 8 p.m. on Nueva Italia's Lázaro Cárdenas Avenue, near a water purifying plant. The attackers forced him into their vehicle, a black SUV, and then fled the scene in the direction of Nuevo Coróndiro, northwest of Nueva Italia, approximately 250 miles west of Mexico City, according to the same witness reports.

In a brief statement Monday, the Michoacán State Attorney General's Office said authorities opened an investigation hours after the abduction took place, and that because Adame is a journalist, the federal attorney general's office (PGR) had been notified and that the federal police and military were searching the area around Nueva Italia.

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