Mexico: journalist in Guerrero becomes 15th media worker killed in 2022
Fredid Román, who ran an online outlet focused on state-level politics, gunned down in his car in state capital
Tue 23 Aug 2022 11.22 EDT
A local journalist who ran an online news program has been shot to death in southern Mexico, making him the 15th media worker killed so far this year nationwide.
Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said on Monday that Fredid Román was gunned down in the state capital, Chilpancingo.
Román’s program, The Reality of Guerrero, focused heavily on state-level politics. He also wrote a column.
Guerrero is a state where drug gangs, armed vigilantes and other groups regularly clash.
This has been one of the deadliest ever for journalists in Mexico, which is now considered the most dangerous country for reporters outside a war zone.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/mexico-journalist-killed-15th-media-
Fredid Román
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Mexican Journalist Killed Hours After Posting About Disappeared Students
Channels Television
Updated August 23, 2022
Members of the Mexican Police stands next to the vehicle in which journalist Fredid Román
was shot dead, in front of the newspaper La Realidad in Chilpancingo, state of Guerrero,
Mexico, on August 22, 2022. (Photo by Jesus GUERRERO / AFP)
A journalist was shot dead Monday afternoon in southern Mexico, authorities said, shortly after posting online about the disappearance eight years ago of 43 students from a nearby area.
Fredid Roman, who published his work on various social media pages and contributed to a local newspaper, was found dead in his car in the city of Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state, the local prosecutor’s office said Monday evening.
The case of the 43 students from Guerrero, who went missing in 2014 after commandeering a bus to head to a protest, is considered one of the worst human rights disasters in Mexican history.
The case was forced back into the spotlight last week when a truth commission branded the atrocity a “state crime” that involved agents of various institutions.
A few hours before his death, Roman published a long Facebook post titled “State Crime Without Charging the Boss,” in which he mentioned an alleged meeting between four officials at the time of the students’ disappearance, including former attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam.
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https://www.channelstv.com/2022/08/23/mexican-journalist-killed-hours-after-posting-about-disappeared-students/