Articles by Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social
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#LeyTelecom: Why Mexicans have been taking to the streets
Outraged by a new communications law, Mexicans showed how much their rights mean to them.
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Protecting freedom of expression for LGBT people
Making a statement during International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T).
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Newspaper distributor attacked, threatened in Mexico
Early on the morning of 1 October 2013, two armed men attacked an El Norte newspaper distributor, punching and insulting him, and using weapons to intimidate him into paying 3000 pesos (approx. US$230) to be allowed to continue distributing the paper in Arroyo La Talaverna in Guadalupe, Nuevo León.
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Over 150 groups urge President Obama to protect whistleblowers and journalists
Over 150 IFEX members and partners of ARTICLE 19 appealed to US President Obama to drop charges against whistleblower Edward Snowden, update the Whistleblower Protection Act and pass a media shield law.
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Reporter who covered police news killed in Mexico
The body of journalist Alberto López Bello was found on 17 July 2013 in Oaxaca City; he had been covering the police beat for the “El Imparcial” newspaper.
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Early morning attacks on newspaper, TV station in northern Mexico
In the early hours of 6 March 2013, the offices of the newspaper El Diario and the TV station Canal 44, in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, were attacked by armed men. No one was hurt.
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Journalists and protesters detained, assaulted in Mexico City
During protests on 1 December 2012 against the inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto as president of Mexico, various reporters, photojournalists and ordinary citizens, aiming to record and report on the demonstrations, were physically assaulted and arbitrarily detained by several police forces during the seven hours of protests.
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Anti-mining activists assassinated in Chihuahua, Mexico
Two activists who had been speaking out against the unlawful extraction of water and contaminating mining exploration in Chihuahua, Mexico have been assassinated.