Impunity (June)

The new ad in the IMPUNITY campaign for the month of JUNE is on the Web site www.impunidad.com.

To access the ad (on the case of mexican journalist Alfredo Jiménez Mota) please (1) go to the Web site www.impunidad.com; (2) click on the bottom line where it says DOWNLOAD ADS; (3) Press Room: click where indicated to download the ad in the size you require (the ads are in PDF format: you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader application, which can be downloaded from the Web free of charge at www.adobe.com).

If you have any problem or questions about this, do please let us know right away.

Yours sincerely,

RICARDO TROTTI

Press Freedom Director

Inter American Press Association

[email protected]

P.S. I enclose a press release on the subject.

IAPA CALLS FOR MORE ACTION IN DISAPPEARANCE OF MEXICAN JOURNALIST

 MIAMI, Florida (June 27)—The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) called on newspaper and magazine readers in the Western Hemisphere to add their signatures to a public letter sent to Mexican President Vicente Fox requesting his help to solve the disappearance of journalist Alfredo Jiménez Motta.  

It is now three months since the 25 year old reporter from El Imparcial, Hermosillo, Sonora state, Mexico, disappeared. Investigations being carried out by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office have so far led nowhere. Everything points to the belief that he was kidnapped in reprisal for his reports in which he disclosed the operation of organized crime and drug trafficking in Sonora.

The IAPA is waging a hemisphere-wide campaign, titled “Let Us Put an End to Impunity,” for those responsible for the murder of 287 journalists in the last 17 years not to continue to go unpunished. Interactive ads are being published in more than three hundreds newspapers and magazines throughout the Americas, inviting readers to join the campaign by adding their signatures to a petition posed on the Web site www.impunidad.com

The IAPA’s hemisphere-wide campaign against impunity, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also includes investigative reporting programs, training for reporters working in hazardous environments, and the monitoring of the state of press freedom in the Americas.

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