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NEWS and REPORTS => World News => Topic started by: HuffingtonPost on Apr 11, 2013, 02:30 PM

Title: Journalist Killer Convicted
Post by: HuffingtonPost on Apr 11, 2013, 02:30 PM
MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors in Mexico have won a 38-year prison sentence against a man convicted of killing journalist Regina Martinez, but the magazine she worked for said justice hasn't been served.

Prosecutors in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz say the sentence against Jorge Silva Hernandez shows the government takes journalists' killings seriously. Nine reporters and photographers have been killed in the state since 2010.

Convictions in such cases in Mexico are rare.

But the magazine Proceso said in an online statement late Tuesday that the fingerprints found in the  journalist's home following her death in April 2012 don't match Silva Hernandez's.

The magazine wrote that "those who are truly guilty have not been identified" and noted that Silva Hernandez has said he was tortured to force him to confess.

Via: HuffingtonPost
Title: Re: Journalist Killer Convicted
Post by: Shola Sholaz on Apr 11, 2013, 06:59 PM
Of course we all know their kind of job is a bit risky but this is just too much. May his soul rest in perfect peace