Joint letter decries impunity in journalists murder
May 30, 2017
Joint letter decries impunity in journalist’s murder
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and five other free speech organizations have sent a joint letter to the Mexican authorities urging them not to let journalist Miroslava Breach’s murder go unpunished. In the two months since her death on 23 March, no arrest has been made and the investigation has made no significant progress.
Sixty days have already elapsed since journalist Miroslava Breach’s murder on 23 March. So far there has been no arrest and no significant progress in the investigation, although the local authorities said they had identified this horrible crime’s perpetrators and instigators. The failure to issue any arrest warrant for the supposedly identified perpetrators is therefore alarming. The lack of diligence displayed by the Chihuahua authorities is generating a climate of mistrust towards them and uncertainty among the victim’s family, fellow journalists and society as whole, which expects swift progress in the investigation.
For these reasons, ARTICLE 19, Centro de Investigación y Capacitación Propuesta Cívica, Comunicación e Información de la Mujer (CIMAC), Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Periodistas de a Pie condemn the impunity currently prevailing in the Breach murder.
In the eyes of the organizations signing this letter, it is clear that the repeated violations of freedom of expression constitute a major structural and social problem and reflect Mexico’s growing violence. At every level – federal, state and municipal – the government takes no interest in the media and even, very often, poses a threat to the media instead of ensuring their protection.
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