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February 14, 2018

Reporters Without Borders criticises ‘appalling level of impunity’ in Mexico over journalist disappearances

By Arun Kakar

Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders has condemned the “appalling level of impunity” in Mexico, where it claims there has been at least 21 unsolved disappearances of journalists since 2000.

According to Mexico’s National Commission for Human Rights, at least eight of the 21  journalists have been missing for more than ten years.

The condemnation coincides with the tenth anniversary of Mexican journalist Mauricio Estrada Zamora’s disappearance in 2008.

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