Following new investigation into 2012 murder of Mexican journalist Regina Martnez, groups call on f
Following new investigation into 2012 murder of Mexican journalist Regina Martínez, groups call on federal authorities to reopen case
By Paola Nalvarte
Photo by Adri Lagunes (CC BY-NC 2.0) March 24, 2021
“She did journalism of checks and balances. She herself became a counterweight,” said a colleague and close friend of Regina Martínez Pérez, the murdered Veracruz correspondent for Mexican magazine Proceso.
Nine years after she was killed, journalists that have not forgotten her case continue to demand justice for Martínez. Recently, an investigation by a coalition of international human rights organizations revealed several leads about the crime and listed urgent guidelines for the Mexican judiciary to reopen the case.
This coalition, A Safer World for the Truth, is made up of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its acronym in French) and Free Press Unlimited (FPU). The objective of this new collaborative project is to seek justice for crimes against journalists. Its first investigative case was that of Martínez, who was brutally murdered at her home in Xalapa, Veracruz, on April 28, 2012.
“Veracruz has been such a violent place for journalists. And I think the murder of Regina Martínez represents or is a much wider problem,” Jos Midas Bartman, author of the report and coordinator of investigations of FPU, told LatAm Journalism Review (LJR).
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Regina Martínez Pérez
Rest in Peace
