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Journalists in Zacatecas demonstrate to demand justice following the murder of Juan Carlos Muñiz Zacatecas. – while in Frenillo the reporter was veiled Juan Carlos Munizbetter known as “Rigoberto” or “TX”In the capital, the Collective of Zacatecan Journalists demonstrated in the Plaza de Armas, in front of the Government Palace, to demand justice for the murder of the communicator.
In the pronouncement, the Zacatecas Attorney General’s Office was asked for a thorough investigation that would allow the clarification of the facts and the strict application of the law so that this crime does not go unpunished, but Governor David Monreal was also demanded to assume its responsibility to provide security and protection, as well as a stop to attacks once morest journalists and freedom of expression.
They also made a call to the director of Multimedia Mining Witnesswhere he collaborated Juan Carlosso that he does not abandon the reporter’s family, following pointing out that Hermelio Camarillo, owner of said portal, is currently also director of the Zacatecan Radio and Television System, the official government media outlet.
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In the manifesto they recalled that he is not the only colleague to be killed in the state, since in December 2020 the photojournalist, Jaime Daniel Castaño Zacarías, was murdered following doing news coverage in Jerez, Zacatecas, “before which the Prosecutor’s Office General of Justice of the state and the Secretary of Public Security of the state government have remained silent.
Faced with this scenario, the protesters expressed that there is fear when working and expressed an energetic rejection of these attacks that mourn the families of journalists from Zacatecas.
They issued an exhortation to the local Legislature to attend to the recent initiative of the Law for the Prevention and Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists once morest offenses, due to the vulnerability with which we work in the different media, and the danger they run colleagues who work on security issues on a daily basis.
In addition to mentioning the lack of protocols, legislation and measures that protect the journalist in Zacatecas, one of the states with the highest level of violence in the country, particularly in Fresnillo, the first place of perception of national insecurity, has claimed one more victim .
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