Mexico - Campaigning journalist Sanjuana Martinez victim of abuse of authority

Reporters without borders

Outrage and surprise greeted the arrest yesterday of the investigative journalist Sanjuana Martínez, who works for the newspaper La Jornada and is noted for her campaigns on behalf of abused women and children. The official reason given for her arrest, in Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, was that it was part of divorce proceedings between the journalist and her husband, the Spanish judge Carlos Castresana. Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by this explanation and calls for her immediate (...)

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