{"id":708,"date":"2010-09-20T14:34:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-09-20T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:34:48","slug":"09-21-10-persecuted-mexican-journalists-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/09-21-10-persecuted-mexican-journalists-speak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"09-21-10.Persecuted Mexican Journalists Speak Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PERSECUTED MEXICAN JOURNALISTS SPEAK OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Press conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When: 12 p.m. Noon, TOMORROW Tuesday, Sept. 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: 2115 N. Piedras (BNHR offices)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>El Paso, TX 79930<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Paso, TX \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Three exiled Mexican journalists trying to escape the violence against journalists in Mexico and seeking political asylum in the United States will speak to the media TOMORROW at the offices of the Border Network for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the journalists, <strong>Emilio Gutierrez Soto<\/strong>, <strong>Ricardo Chavez Aldana<\/strong>, <strong>Alejandro Hernandez Pacheco<\/strong>, as well as their attorney, <strong>Carlos Spector<\/strong>, will be on hand to tell their stories. A fourth journalist, <strong>Luis Horacio Najera<\/strong>, from Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, has been granted political asylum in Canada and will join the press conference via Skype.<\/p>\n<p>Also joining the press conference will be <strong>Fernando Garcia<\/strong>, Executive Director of the Border Network for Human Rights, and <strong>Benoit Hervieu<\/strong> of Reporters Without Borders in France (via Skype).<\/p>\n<p>The recent murder of Luis Santiago Orozco, a 21 year old photo journalist from El Diario de Cd. Juarez, highlights the need for journalists to speak out and address the increasing danger faced by Mexican journalists.\u00c2\u00a0 The death of Luis Santiago Orozco marks the 11<sup>th<\/sup> murder of a Mexican journalist this year and the recent report of the Committee to Protect Journalists, states that more than 30 journalists have either been murdered or gone missing in Mexico since Calderon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidency. The Border Network for Human Rights dedicates itself to the protection of rights in the border region, including the freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Contacts: <\/em>Gabriela Casta\u00c3\u00b1eda, Border Network for Human Rights, (915) 577-0724, <a href=\"mailto:gcastaneda@bnhr.org\">gcastaneda@bnhr.org<\/a>; and Sandra Spector, (915)329-6071<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERSECUTED MEXICAN JOURNALISTS SPEAK OUT Press conference When: 12 p.m. Noon, TOMORROW Tuesday, Sept. 21st, 2010 Where: 2115 N. Piedras (BNHR offices) El Paso, TX 79930 El Paso, TX \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Three exiled Mexican journalists&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}