Federal police in Mexico have arrested three suspected drug cartel members allegedly involved in the kidnapping of three Mexican journalists last, news reports said today. According to the Associated Press, the suspects, aged 23, 25, and 33, allegedly worked for the Sinaloa drug cartel in the city of Gomez Palacio in the Northern Mexican state […]

Mexican journalist Óscar Solís, a reporter for local newspaper El Vespertino who was kidnapped on the same day as fellow journalists Javier Canales, Alejandro Hernandez and Hector Gordoa, has also been freed. Earlier this week, IPI reported on the freeing of Canales, Hernandez and Gordoa. At the time, media reports said that Solis remained unaccounted for. Subsequent […]

Three of four Mexican journalists kidnapped last week have been released, according to news reports. Mexican police raided a drug gang safe house before dawn on Saturday, freeing Javier Canales, a cameraman at Laguna Multimedia, and national television network Televisa cameraman Alejandro Hernandez. Televisa reporter Hector Gordoa was freed on Thursday following negotiations with his […]

New OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic on Thursday released her first regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, noting that in many OSCE member countries media freedom remains under threat. In opening remarks, Mijatovic highlighted the threats posed by criminal defamation and tight Internet control, as well as the cases of […]