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where journalists are slain and killers go free
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Armando Rodríguez Carreón
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| Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, India, Iraq, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka
CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index spotlights countries
Two years have passed since the killing of El Diario journalist José Armando Rodríguez Carreón, known to his friends as "El Choco," and no legal process has begun to shed light on the crime committed on November 13, 2008. Faced with the reality of impunity, his widow, Blanca Martínez, asserted that her only hope lies in God.
Continue reading Armando Rodríguez's murder: Two years, no justice »
The man who Mexican President
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa said had confessed to taking part in the murder of reporter
Armando Rodríguez Carreón was tortured, the newspaper El Diario in Ciudad Juárez reported today. On Wednesday, Calderón
told a delegation from CPJ and the Inter American Press Association about the man's
alleged involvement in the killing. Mexico's attorney general, Arturo Chávez
Chávez, cast the confession as a breakthrough in the case.
Continue reading Doubt cast on confession in Rodríguez murder »
The major daily in the war-wracked Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, El Diario, surprised media around the globe on Saturday when it published an unusual editorial that openly compromises the paper's coverage in order to preserve its journalists' lives.
Under the headline, "What do you want from us?," the editorial pleads for the cartels to stop killing journalists, and asks them to clarify what journalists are allowed to publish in order to avoid adding to the long list of reporters killed in Mexico in the last decade. In a bold move, the paper addresses the cartels directly, and even recognizes their power in Ciudad Juárez. "You are the de facto authorities in this city, since our legitimate representatives have been unable to prevent our colleagues from being killed," the editorial reads in Spanish.
Continue reading Paper will curb coverage to protect reporters' lives in Juárez »
Reports
| Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Iraq, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka
CPJ challenges authorities in 10 nations
to bring justice and reverse culture of impunity
New York, April 29, 2010—In the Philippines, political clan members slaughter more than 30 news media workers and dump their bodies in mass graves. In Sri Lanka, a prominent editor who has criticized authorities is so sure of retaliation that he predicts his own murder. In Pakistan, a reporter who embarrassed the government is abducted and slain. In these and hundreds of other journalist killings worldwide, no one has been convicted.
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• Amid threats and attacks, self-censorship becomes more pervasive.
• Congress stalls on reforms to combat violence against the press.
9: Journalists missing since 2005. Most had covered crime and corruption.
The deepening influence of organized crime and the government’s inability to curb worsening violence left the news media wide open to attack. In the last 10 years alone, CPJ research shows, 32 editors and reporters have been killed, at least 11 in direct reprisal for their work. Nine more journalists have disappeared since 2005. Most of those targeted had covered organized crime, drug trafficking, or government corruption—topics that journalists say they increasingly avoid in fear of reprisal. Reforms that would impose special penalties for attacks on the press and give the federal government broad authority to prosecute crimes against free expression were stalled in Congress.
Continue reading Attacks on the Press 2009: Mexico »
In one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities, reporting the news requires extreme caution. Self-censorship and manipulation of the news are constants. By Mike O’Connor
Continue reading Special Report: Reporting, and Surviving, in Ciudad Juárez »
Making headlines today across the English and
Spanish-language press is the brutal murder of Mexican crime reporter Armando Rodríguez.
Continue reading Press freedom in the news 11/14/08 »
Continue reading Crime reporter slain in Ciudad Juárez »
We issued the following statement in response to
the murder of Mexican reporter Armando Rodríguez, who covered crime for the
Ciudad Juárez-based daily El Diario
in the state of Chihuahua
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