[Imc-london-audio] Fwd: [MRN] Mexican community radio station journalists receive death threats

Fri Sep 15 08:54:03 PDT 2006

hey, i don't want to clog people's inboxes - are both these addys still
being used?

kc

--- George Lessard <media at web.net> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:12:10 -0600
> To: Creative Radio List <creative-radio at yahoogroups.com>
> From: George Lessard <media at web.net>
> Subject: [MRN] Mexican community radio station journalists receive
> death threats
> 
> Community radio station journalists receive death threats
> PeaceJournalism.com - Nepal
> (AMARC/IFEX) - AMARC again expresses its deep concern over threats 
> issued against community radio stations in Mexico. The most recent
> ...
> <http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=10795>
> 
> MEXICO
> 
> 14 September 2006
> 
> Community radio station journalists receive death threats
> 
> SOURCE: The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters,
> (AMARC)
> 
> (AMARC/IFEX) - AMARC again expresses its deep concern over threats 
> issued against community radio stations in Mexico. The most recent 
> target is the staff of the community radio station La Voladora Radio,
> 
> located in Amecameca de Juárez, in the state of Mexico.
> 
> Journalists with the station received various threats, to their lives
> 
> and welfare, in e-mail messages dated 30 August 2006. The threats 
> were linked to their journalistic work with the station.
> 
> On 1 September, at 4:00 a.m. (local time), one of the station 
> employees found his car vandalised, its windows shattered by rocks. 
> The employee filed a complaint with the Amecameca Public Prosecutor's
> 
> Office.
> 
> On 6 September, station staff received another death threat by 
> e-mail. Again, on the night of 7 September, employees received 
> another threat that was all the more concerning because it stated 
> that action would soon be taken.
> 
> La Voladora Radio is a community radio station that, after a long 
> struggle, managed to obtain a licence from the secretary of 
> communications and transport, allowing it to broadcast and thereby 
> exercise the right to freedom of expression and access to 
> information. The station has received much recognition from its 
> listeners for the important public service it provides the community,
> 
> which makes it all the more imperative that intransigent groups not 
> be allowed to attack the station, and that authorities take 
> appropriate action to prevent such violations from occurring.
> 
> On 1 September, the threatened employees registered a complaint with 
> the local Public Prosecutor's Office; the corresponding federal 
> office would not accept the complaint as it did not consider the 
> threats to constitute a crime. Thus far, no action has been taken to 
> safeguard the people under threat.
> 
> These threats violate judicial guarantees set out in the Constitution
> 
> and in international agreements, including the right to freedom of 
> expression as enshrined in articles 6 and 7 of the Mexican 
> Constitution, as well as in article 13 of the American Convention on 
> Human Rights and article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human 
> Rights, to which Mexico is signatory.
> 
> It is worth noting that, in 2005 and thus far in 2006, Mexico is one 
> of the countries with the highest number of journalist killings, 
> making the threats against the employees of La Voladora Radio all the
> 
> more worrisome, and the need for a thorough investigation, leading to
> 
> the identification and punishment of the perpetrators, all the more 
> urgent.
> 
> In light of this situation, AMARC makes the following requests:
> 
> 1. That local authorities take measures to protect the journalists 
> and to ensure such threats are not repeated, and that they 
> investigate and take appropriate action with expedience and 
> impartiality.
> 
> 2. That the federal authorities take every reasonable and adequate 
> action to ensure the safety of the employees of La Voladora Radio.
> 
> 3. That the National Human Rights Commission (la Comisión Nacional de
> 
> Los Derechos Humanos, CNDH) mobilise its resources and take all the 
> necessary precautionary measures to protect these journalists from 
> harm.
> 
> RECOMMENDED ACTION:
> 
> Send appeals to authorities:
> - expressing support for AMARC-Mexico's demands
> 
> APPEALS TO:
> 
> Carlos Abascal Carranza
> Secretario de Gobernación
> [Secretary of the Interior]
> Tel: +55 50933400
> E-mail: cabascal at segob.gob.mx
> 
> Pedro Cerisola y Weber
> Secretario de Comunicaciones y Transportes
> [Communications and Transport Secretary]
> Fax: +55 19 06 92
> E-mail: ucg_srio at sct.gob.mx
> 
> Lic. Enrique Adolfo Aranda
> Subsecretario de Normatividad de Medios
> [Sub-secretary for Media Standards]
> Secretaría de Gobernación
> Tel: +55 55 35 69 15
> E-mail: earanda at segob.gob.mx
> 
> Actuaria Eugenia del Carmen Diez Hidalgo
> Jefa de la Unidad de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos
> de la Secretaría de Gobernación
> [Head of the Human Rights Promotion and Defence Unit of the Secretary
> 
> of the Interior]
> Fax: +51 280223
> E-mail: ediez at segog.gob.mx
> 
> Daniel Francisco Cabeza de Vaca
> Procurador General de la República
> [Attorney General]
> Tel: +56 55 25 95 ext. 202, +56 55 25 95, Ext. 210
> 
> Mario Álvarez Ledesma
> Subprocurador de Derechos Humanos
> [Sub-Attorney General for Human Rights]
> Fax: +53 464382
> E-mail: malvarez at pgr.gob.mx
> 
> José Luis Soberanes
> Presidente de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos
> [President of the National Human Rights Commission]
> Fax: +5490 74 00
> 
> Enrique Peña Nieto
> Gobernador del Estado de México
> [Governor of Mexico state]
> E-mail: gob at gem.gob.mx
> 
> Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
> 
> For further information, contact Daniel Iván García, representative 
> for AMARC-México, tel: +52 55 5672 4961, or Gustavo Gómez, Director, 
> Communication Rights and Legislation Programme, AMARC Latin America 
> and the Caribbean (AMARC-LAC), Carlos María Ramírez 894, 11900 
> Montevideo, Uruguay, tel: +598 2 309 2824, +598 99 660373, e-mail: 
> representacion at mexico.amarc.org, gusgomez at chasque.apc.org, Internet: 
> http://alc.amarc.org/legislaciones
> 
> The information contained in this alert is the sole responsibility of
> 
> AMARC. In citing this material for broadcast or publication, please 
> credit AMARC.
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