Mexico - Court overturns conviction for Proceso reporter's murder

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders notes that a court in the eastern state of Veracruz yesterday overturned Jorge Antonio Hernández's conviction for Proceso investigative journalist Regina Martínez's murder on the grounds that it was based solely on a confession, possibly extracted under torture. An illiterate man also known as “El Silva,” Hernández was given a 38-year jail sentence in April for her murder. “This case is still unsolved,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The investigation must be started (...)

Read complete article

~	Why the New Yorker blocked UK website readers from its Lucy Letby story – an expert explains

~	How a British military march became the distinctive sound of American graduations

~	UN rights office urges Sri Lanka to reveal fate of the disappeared

~	World Should Rally to Halt Unfolding Atrocities in Darfur

~	It’s a mistake to dismiss Bridgerton as fluffy period drama

~	How newborn chicks are helping to settle a centuries-old debate about cognition and our senses

~	Extreme heatwaves in south and south-east Asia are a sign of things to come

~	Slovakia’s polarised politics: Robert Fico warned a politician could be violently attacked weeks before assassination attempt

~	Co-op Live: Manchester’s new concert venue was hit by delays, but a false start need not mean it’s blighted forever

~	‘They call us the fatherless ones’: the trauma of families devastated by the infected blood scandal will last for generations