weekly Proceso correspondent
Mexico, July 23, 2010 (CEPET). Isaín Mandujano and Angeles Mariscal, Chiapas correspondent of the weekly Proceso and the newspaper La Jornada, respectively, reported a smear campaign launched against him to discredit his work, which means active dependent on the government of that state in southeastern Mexico.
CEPET In conversation with the journalists attributed the attacks to the trouble between officials of the government of Juan Sabines Guerrero, media coverage has given both organizations' activities, groups of protesters and critical decisions state authority.
Through unsigned notes, published in some media, both Mandy and Marshall are accused of participating in a strategy of destabilization to generate an image of repression by the state government against social movements, while their faces are shown and are accused of manipulating the information.
were also circulated emails sent from an address called the reporter for La Jornada, which promises to "support" in exchange for support for the demonstrations of protest, and whose authorship was denied by the very Mariscal .
The charges against the two reporters have also been disseminated through the system Chiapas Radio and TV, particularly through the Free Word program, led by Miguel Gonzalez Alonso, in which "Says Mandy has been devoted to a full hour to insult personally.
correspondent pointed out that process and requested a meeting with Governor Juan Sabines to try to stop attacks from his administration, and with the assistance of the researcher at the Institute for Legal Research of UNAM and specialist in law access to information, Ernesto Villanueva, interpose a complaint with the Human Rights Commission of Chiapas by the use of a station in the state to attack journalists.
Both journalists are planning to also file a complaint for slander against and by the use of the name of Marshal Angeles post trying to discredit his work as reporting. Also seek the support of Crimes Against Journalists Program of the National Commission of Human Rights, in order that the necessary precautionary measures to prevent any attack motivated by the accusations against him.
addition to support from several organizations, the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City, through its Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Care Defenders of Human Rights, expressed its repudiation of the smear campaign against the report, which endorsed moral character, and considered that "events such as these contribute to inhibit the exercise of journalism, freedom of expression and the right to information, as well as to increase the risk for people who practice journalism in the state of Chiapas and throughout the country."
CDHDF CONDEMNS DEFAMATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST JOURNALISTS IN CHIAPAS