(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Santiago Creel Miranda, RSF protested threats made by Gabriel Herrera Trujillo, Michoacán (western Mexico) state municipal police chief, against Francisco Castellanos, correspondent for the weekly magazine “Proceso” and contributor to the daily newspaper “El Mañana”. “We ask that a government investigation be launched and that […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Santiago Creel Miranda, RSF protested threats made by Gabriel Herrera Trujillo, Michoacán (western Mexico) state municipal police chief, against Francisco Castellanos, correspondent for the weekly magazine “Proceso” and contributor to the daily newspaper “El Mañana”. “We ask that a government investigation be launched and that the perpetrator of the threats be punished,” stated RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard. Moreover, the organisation asked the minister of the interior to use all means possible to guarantee the journalist’s safety.
According to information gathered by RSF, Castellanos, correspondent for the weekly magazine “Proceso”, in Michoacán state, was threatened by Herrera Trujillo, municipal police chief for Michoacán state. In a 4 November 2001 article, published in the daily “El Mañana”, in Tamaulipas state (northeastern Mexico), the journalist reported that a former state prosecutor and a number of members of the Michoacán state police were involved in cases of embezzlement and racketeering.
