Bahrain: UN human rights office concerned at sentences given to medical staff, activists
30 September 2011 –
The United Nations
human rights office today expressed concern over the increase in the number of killings of
journalists in Mexico this year, and urged the country’s
authorities to launch immediate investigations to punish the perpetrators.
In the past month alone, four
journalists have been killed for their reporting on
organized crime. The most recent killing occurred last Saturday, when the body of María Elizabeth Macías, editor of a Nuevo Laredo newspaper,
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