Mexico City.- Unanimously, the Chamber of Deputies approved the “Ingrid Law” that sanctions officials who disseminate information or content of victims of serious crimes. With this, the legislators of San Lázaro seek to avoid the revictimization of the victims and their relatives by the imparters of justice.
This will be thanks to the opinion of amendment to article 225 of the Federal Penal Codewhich seeks to classify and punish the dissemination of information or audiovisual material of crimes related to gender violence.
The newly approved opinion is commonly known as “Ingrid Law” due to the social movement that emerged after the disclosure of images related to the femicide of Ingrid Escamilla, who was barely 25 years old when she was murdered by her partner in 2020.
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The opinion approved by the plenary was sent to the Senate of the Republic. In it, it establishes in section XXIX the crimes against the administration of justice, committed by public servants:
“When by himself or through an intermediary, through any means and outside the cases authorized by the Law, he photographs, copies, films, audio-records, video-records, reproduces, disseminates, delivers, reveals, sends, shares, distributes, publishes, transmit, expose, offer, exchange or market any image, audio, video, document, information, indication, evidence or object related to a criminal procedure, the personal conditions of a victim or the factual circumstances or facts that the law indicates as crimes ”.
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Whoever commits one of the crimes contemplated in this fraction will be sentenced to prison from 4 to 10 years and a fine of 100 to 150 days. The sanctions will increase if the information disseminated is about women, girls, adolescents or people with disabilities, according to information in a statement published this Wednesday by the Chamber of Deputies.
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