CNDH and journalists ask security authorities for journalist threatened

The reporter of the Mexican channel ADN40, Monserrat Ortiz, denounced via Twitter that received death threats in the name of a man accused of having raped his three ex-girlfriends.

After his case became viral on social media, the staff of The National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) has maintained communication with the journalist in order to offer you the corresponding attention.

The agency asked the Government Secretariat and the Attorney General of Mexico City to apply the precautionary measures necessary to preserve the journalist's life and safety and provide the emotional confinement that corresponds.

Carlos "N" threatened to "rape her", wait outside her job and kill her for showing it in a report broadcast on television where three women denounced him for physically and psychologically abusing them.

"Yesterday, we took note in the @HanniaNovell in @ adn40 space of the violence and aggression of Carlos" N "against several women.Today, I have received these messages from your FB account, where threatens to rape me and murder me for my journalistic workwrote Ortiz.

They explained that The CNDH will remain attentive to the progress of investigations, pending the arrival of the responsible and bring him to justice so that there is no impunity. In addition, they indicated that In the case of women journalists, the research and the measures put in place for their protection must be done from a different perspective.

Women journalists and colleagues from Monserrat Ortiz They expressed their support on Twitter against threats that threatened them.

The field of networks of journalists and freedom of expression in the communication and information of women A.C. published: "Dear Montserrat, @RedPeriodistaMx and Cimac, we will contact you to offer our support. We call @mpicdmx to help us manage the safeguards needed to protect the journalist's life and work. We remain attentive. "

The network of women journalists from Morelos also joined Ortiz's request for security: "# NoMásViolenciavsMujeresJournalists
We demand immediate protection for @ItsMonseOrtiz, she reported the violence suffered by three women at the hands of the same man. He has now threatened to rape and kill her. Solidarity @ItsMonseOrtiz"

Being a journalist and a woman in Mexico

In Mexico, six out of ten Mexicans have been victims of an episode of violence throughout their lives, according to a United Nations (UN) report.

As regards journalists, article 19 only documented 389 attacks on journalists from January to July 2018. Of this figure, 127 were women victims of harbadment, intimidation, threats, physical badault, roadblocks or deprivation of liberty.

Impunity prevails in 99.2% of crimes against journalists investigated by federal authorities.

According to the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America for journalists and one of the 50 with less freedom of expression.