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10. RIGHT OF REPLY AND OF RETRACTION

The Print Law of 1917 states:

Article 27: ?Newspapers shall be required to publish free of charge corrections or responses that the authorities or their employees or private persons may wish to make to allusions made in articles, editorials, paragraphs, news reports or interviews, so long as the reply is made within eight days of publication, that it be no longer than three times the length of the paragraph or article containing the contested allusion in the case of authorities, or two times in the case of private individuals, that no slanderous or indecorous reference be made to the journalist concerned, that there is no attack on third persons and that there is no contravention of this law.

?If the rectification is longer than stipulated, the newspaper shall be required to publish it in full, but it will receive payment for the excess at a price in line with its advertising rates, and payment shall be made per prior agreement.

?Publication of the response shall be in the same place and in the same typeface and other specifications as the original article, paragraph or interview to which the rectification or reply refers.

?The rectification or reply shall be published the day after its receipt in the case of a daily publication or in the next edition in the case of other periodical publications.

?If the reply or rectification is received after deadline and therefore cannot be published as above, then it shall be carried in the next edition.

?Non-compliance with this provision shall be punishable with imprisonment of not less than one month and not more than 11 months, without prejudice to the requirement to publish as stipulated, in the case of non-compliance applying the penalty set out in Article 904 of the Penal Code of the Federal District.?

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