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Mexico Campaign
October 09, 2005
Mexico Campaign 10 – 17 October 2005
As agreed at the 71st International PEN Congress held in Bled in June
2005, the WiPC is staging a campaign in October focusing on freedom of
expression issues in Mexico. The campaign is set to run for one week
from Monday 10 to Sunday 17 October 2005.
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The week long campaign consists of two distinct elements:
1. The recent murders of journalists and the impunity enjoyed by their killers.
2. The prosecution in the Supreme Court of poet and professor Sergio Witz.
Mexico Murdered Journalists
The problem of impunity is, sadly, one Mexico shares with the majority of nations in the Americas. Where it particularly impinges on freedom of expression is in the numerous cases of journalists – particularly investigative journalists – who have been murdered in order to silence their voices. The death toll this century has been such that Mexico is now one of the most dangerous places in the world to practice journalism. The focus of WiPC’s Mexico Campaign is on those journalists who have been murdered since 1 January 2000. Although some arrests have been made in connection with these murders, none could be said to have come to a satisfactory conclusion.
Click here for details of these cases:
Mexico Murdered Journalists Case Details
Please see the model letter here:
Appeal Letter for Murdered Mexican Journalists
Appeal Letter for Murdered Mexican Journalists (Spanish/Español)
This letter, or one of your own can be sent to:
President
Lic. Vicente Fox Quesada
Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos,
Palacio Nacional Patio de Honor
Col. Centro
06067, Distrito Federal
México
Fax : +52 55 5277 2376
E-mail: vicente.fox.quesada@presidencia.gob.mx
Internal Affairs Minister
Lic. Santiago Creel Miranda
Secretario de Gobernación,
Secretaría de Gobernación,
Bucareli No. 99
Col. Juárez
Delegación Cuahtémoc
06600 Distrito Federal
México
Tel: +52 55 5093 3410
E-mail: ghuerta@segob.gob.mx
• You may wish to ask the diplomatic representative for Mexico in your country to forward your appeals.
• It would also be advantageous to ask your own country’s diplomatic representatives in Mexico to intervene in these cases.
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Mexico Journalists Murdered Before The Year 2000
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