[cma-l] Mexico - joint urgent appeal

[Steve Buckley]

Please response to this urgent appeal...

Source: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/92500/
(AMARC/IFEX) - The following is a 9 April 2008 joint statement by AMARC, 
ARTICLE 19 and Reporters without Borders:

AMARC-Mexico, ARTICLE 19 and Reporters without Borders condemn the 
murder of two community radio journalists and demand:

1. Clarification on the events that took place on 8 April 2008 on the 
highway to San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, which resulted in the murder of 
Teresa Bautista Merino and Felicitas Martinez Sanchez, journalists of 
the community radio station La Voz que Rompe el Silencio.

2. Punishment of the masterminds of the crime and its material 
perpetrators who took these journalists' lives.

3. Protection of the lives and physical safety of the survivors - 
Faustino Vazquez Martinez, Cristina Martinez Flores and their two 
children -
who are key witnesses to the event, as well as the lives and physical 
safety of the other members of the radio station.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=3D24025

4. An end to the climate of impunity that is allowing such acts of 
aggression, disappearances and murders to continue to be committed 
against members of community media, as well as journalists and media 
outlets in general, which is making Mexico the continent's most 
dangerous country in which to work as a journalist.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Send appeals to the authorities:
- asking for prompt clarification of the murders, punishment of those 
responsible and protection for the witnesses and their children

APPEALS TO:

Felipe Calderon Hinojosa
Presidente de la Rep=ublica
(President)
Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Tel: +52 55 5093 5300
Fax: +55 5093 4901
E-mail:
felipe.calderon at presidencia.gob.mx

Juan Camilo Mourino Terrazo
Jefe de la Oficina de la Presidencia de la Republica
(Chief of the Office of the President)
Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Tel: +52 55 5093 3400
E-mail: jcmourino at segob.gob.mx

Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza
Procurador General de la Rep=FAblica
(Attorney General)
Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Tel: +52 55 5346 0114 / 5346 0115
Fax: +52 55 5346 0908
E-mail: yess at pgr.gob.mx

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
Gobernador de Oaxaca
(Oaxaca Governor)
Oaxaca de Ju=E1rez, Oaxaca, Mexico
Tel: +52 951 502 05 30
Fax: +52 951 502 05 31
E-mail: gobernador at oaxaca.gob.mx

Jos=E9 Luis Soberanes
Presidente de la Comisi=F3n Nacional de Derechos Humanos
(President of the National Human Rights Commission)
Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Tel: +52 55 1719 2000, x 8293 y 8280
E-mail: correo at cndh.org.mx

C. Octavio Alberto Orellana Wiarco
Fiscal Especial para la Atenci=F3n de Delitos Cometidos contra Periodistas
(Special Prosecutor for Crimes against Journalists)
Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Fax: +52 55 5346 43 70

Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/92418

Updates on the Bautista Merino and Martinez Sanchez case:
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/92418

MORE INFORMATION:

For further information, contact Gustavo Gomez, Director, Communication 
Rights and Legislation Programme, AMARC Latin America and the Caribbean
(AMARC-LAC), Luis de la Pe=F1a 484 Ap.2, 11900 Montevideo, Uruguay, tel: 
+598 2 309 2824, +598 99 660373,

e-mail: gusgomez at chasque.apc.org
Internet: http://legislaciones.amarc.org