10 minutes agoIf you make me go back to Mexico, I'm dead”
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Journalist Emilia Gutierrez fled to the US after receiving death threats in what he had reported on abuses in Mexico. He has now been detained and facing expulsion that lawyers are calling a violation of free speech. After Emillion Gutierrez Soto had received death threats after reporting about [...]
After Emillion Gutierrez Soto had received death threats after reporting about the abuses of the Mexican Army, he had taken the lead towards the US with ten young men who had crossed borders to take asylum.
If I come back to Mexico, I can't live,” told Gutierrez during his hearing at the Court.
Now the winner of a journalistic award he has been brought to the Customs Migration and Implementation Centre (ICE), despite his never breaking American law.
On April 9th, 20 professional journalism organisations presented a friendly summary (<x0micus”) calls for its immediate release in a move they hope to stay in its possible expulsion.
They argue Gutierrez's case is the United States' crucial test of commitment to free speech.
Gutierrez was a journalist of “El Diario del Noroeste”, based in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. He said he was the only journalist in a small town who had reported for public figures.
Gutierrez's lawyer, Eduardo Beckett, said his return to Mexico means murder for him.
Even if you change his job, you cannot change the articles he wrote. His name will remain there. Everyone knows his name,” said Beckett./Periscopi/
