CNDH calls for protection of journalists and human rights defenders during the electoral process

Precautionary  measures were issued to authorities to facilitate their work and guarantee their safety.

This National Agency requested the governor and governors of the 31 states of the Mexican Republic, the Head of Government of Mexico City, as well as the Secretariat of National Defense, the Ministry of the Navy, the Attorney General’s Office and state prosecutors’ offices, the Secretariats of Security and Citizen Protection; the Undersecretariat for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior; Congresses of the Union and local congresses, the Judiciary of the Federation, human rights protection agencies, mayors, mayors and municipal presidents, create the conditions for representatives of the media and human rights defenders to freely exercise their work, giving special attention to women who carry out this activity, in order to prevent grievances against them.

So far in the 2021 electoral process, the CNDH has warned that journalists have been the victims of threats, intimidation, harassment and physical attacks; while, according to the report of the #Red Breaks the Fear elections 2018, the rights to freedom of expression, press and access to information have also been affected by raids, homicides, attacks on material property, digital communication networks and computer systems; blocking, altering or removing information; disappearance, forced displacement, in addition to intervention or illegal surveillance of communications, committed, in some cases by State agents.

The precautionary measures have already been duly notified to the authorities, so the CNDH will remain attentive to their acceptance and compliance.