Mexico City’s chief prosecutor has announced that robbery was the motive in the killings of two female Mexican journalists who were found dead in a park in Mexico City last month, naked, with their hands and feet bound. Authorities last week said they had arrested two men — 29-year-old Óscar Yair Quiñones and 26-year-old Lázaro […]

The International Press Institute deplores the brutal murder of María Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39. The journalist was abducted on Friday, 23 September, and her body was found the next day in Nuevo Laredo city, in the border state of Tamaulipas.  According to news reports, she was decapitated and left near a monument to Christopher Columbus […]

The members of the International Press Institute, meeting at the 60th annual IPI General Assembly at the IPI World Congress 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, on 26 September 2011, unanimously passed  seven resolutions condemning serious violations of press freedom around the world. Focal points of the resolutions were: -A request for the repeal of criminal defamation […]

The body of a Mexican journalist who disappeared Sunday from the Gulf coast state of Veracruz was found dead yesterday. Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a police beat reporter for daily newspaper Notiver, was found with her throat slit behind the headquarters of another newspaper, Imagen. According to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, […]