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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