More than 150 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000, according to RSF’s count.
Three journalists have been missing since December 27 in Mexico, in one of the country’s 32 states most affected by the wave of violence in the country, organizations defending human rights and freedom of expression reported yesterday Wednesday.
All three work for a news website in the state of Guerrero (southwest), where violence has been sweeping in recent days (and) the informal capital of the Mexican tourism industry, Acapulco.
Two of them appeared, tied up, in a video uploaded online. One says in the video that they pay the “consequences” for their posts.
“We don’t know when the video was actually shot,” Balbina Flores, the representative in Mexico of the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), told AFP.
RSF was able to confirm that the three journalists disappeared in an area where the situation is “very difficult, very complicated” as it is controlled “almost 100%” by the “Familia Michoacana” gang.
Reporters Without Borders and two other organizations called on Mexican authorities to “investigate and coordinate to find the journalists immediately.”
More than 150 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000, according to RSF’s count. Crimes against media workers go largely unpunished in the country.
A police officer was murdered on Tuesday in Acapulco, where human remains have also been found in recent days.
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