MIAMI, Florida (April 28, 2009)—In a new move in its hemisphere-wide campaign to create public awareness of the need to solve unpunished murders of journalists the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), together with hundreds of newspaper readers, today called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to encourage the government of Mexico to see that justice is done in the case of the April 2, 2005, disappearance of journalist Alfredo Jiménez Mota.
A reporter for 25 years for the Hermosillo, Sonora, newspaper El Imparcial, Jiménez Mota went missing but to date no one has been arrested or charged in connection with the disappearance. Existing information indicates that he was abducted in reprisal for articles he had written exposing the activities of organized crime and its links to Sonora state government officials.
The IAPA letter to the IACHR was addressed to the agency’s executive secretary, Santiago Cantón, and signed by hundreds of newspaper reader from throughout the Americas.
Through ads published in newspapers and magazines in the Western Hemisphere the IAPA is inviting the community to join its anti-impunity campaign by going to its Web site, www.impunidad.com. The initiative is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
