Mexico.- The bench of the Labor Party (PT) in the Upper House of the Congress of the Union proposed a reform initiative so that the General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) attract all cases of murders, attacks and attacks committed against journalists.
The foregoing when pointing out the failures of the protection mechanism of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) and the measures that are taken in the different states of the country in this regard.
“It is also the responsibility of the 32 state governments, so we propose to strengthen the protection mechanisms for journalists, immediately addressing the complaints filed by the union,” he said.
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It was the coordinator of the PT senators, Geovanna Bañuelos, who proposed that the autonomous body headed by Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero be in charge of all the crimes perpetrated against journalists in national territory.
“The Mexican State has the obligation to guarantee the life and physical integrity of communicators, but in the context in which these homicides take place, organized crime and impunity are the enemies of freedom of expression, as the Unit of Defense of Human Rights and the Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists”, he emphasized.
Bañuelos specified that his parliamentary group presented an initiative to reform article 21 of the National Code of Criminal Procedures in order to grant the FGR the power to attract cases of crimes committed against communicators and media facilities, as well as against human rights defenders.
In this sense, the PT senator accused that, despite the fact that the Mexican government is obliged to protect people who are dedicated to freedom of expression, it has failed by not being able to safeguard them from the context of violence that the Mexican Republic is going through. .
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Likewise, he announced that he also presented a point of agreement for the Ministry of the Interior to review the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journaliststhis in the face of failures and the impunity that prevails in these crimes.
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