Mexico - More police violence against journalists covering demonstrations

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing police violence against journalists covering demonstrations. In the latest case, riot police beat four photographers and seized their equipment while they were covering the dispersal of teachers occupying a square in Xalapa, capital of the eastern state of Veracruz. The police arrested a fifth photographer, Juan Alberto Arellano (pictured), during the operation and charged him with illegal carriage of a firearm and “crime against public (...)

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