Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social

The groups agreed there is a need for freedom of expression and journalists’ organisations to continue and add to measures that promote and support the right of journalists and media outlets to carry out their work.

The newspaper issued a statement saying that its facilities in Mazatlán were the target of an armed attack hours after having received a threatening telephone call.

Armed individuals opened fire on the Televisa Laguna television station’s broadcasting facilities in the city of Torreón, leaving behind more than 150 bullet casings.

It is unclear whether the bullet was intended for journalist Ixtli Martínez, or if she was caught in the crossfire.

The recent break-in at journalist Laura Castellanos’s house marks a long line of intimidation acts, which includes phone tapping, email intervention and constant surveillance of her living premises.

Recalling UNESCO’s stated commitment to free expression on World Press Freedom Day, 30 IFEX members call for the organisation not to accept a $3 million donation from President Teodoro Obiang for the administration of an international prize in life sciences.

Among the missing are two journalists from the magazine “Contralínea”.

Ramón Ángeles Zalpa, a a correspondent for the local newspaper “Cambio de Michoacán”, was last seen on 6 April 2010.