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 Travel Writers' Resources | March 2007 
Ealy Ortiz Decries Ongoing Crimes Against Journalists
 El Universal
| | EL UNIVERSAL president Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz |
EL UNIVERSAL president Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz said Sunday that during the past six months the Inter American Press Association (SIP) has recorded 66 convictions of people who were involved in crimes against journalists.
The announcement came during SIP´s semiannual meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, where more than 600 publishers, editors and reporters met to analyze the status of press freedom.
MEXICO TOPS DANGER LIST
SIP also announced that six journalists have been murdered in the region since October.
In his speech, Ortiz said that with the exception of one murder in Haiti, the rest of these murders occurred in Mexico.
"I´m regret to report that in this period, violence against journalists continued on this continent," Ortiz, who is also president of the commission against criminal impunity for the SIP, said Sunday.
During this same period, two more journalists were kidnapped and are still listed as missing.
On another topic being monitored by the SIP, President Felipe Calderón recently promised the group that he will sign into law a measure that decriminalizes libel at the federal level. SIP delegates met with Calderón and Supreme Court magistrates and legislators earlier this month to discuss the pending measure.
On Sunday, SIP urged government leaders to pass the law at the constitutional level in order to take effect nationwide. They noted that the majority of libel suits filed against journalists occur in the interior of the country. |
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