They discover the lifeless body of a journalist in Mexico

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The journalist and environmental activist Abisaí Pérez Romero, whose lifeless body was found in the municipality of Tula, state of Hidalgo, central Mexico, is the first case of an informant murdered in mexico in 2023.

In a statement issued this Thursday, the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) reported the finding. “With deep pain we communicate that on February 14, the lifeless body of our colleague Abisaí Pérez Romero, a student of the Communication and Culture career of our house of studies, was found in the municipality of Tula, Hidalgo state,” he said. the institution.

The UACM said that Pérez was a “committed defender of human rights and environmental rights” and collaborated in the Atlas of Environmental Justice in addition to participating in the social service program Identification and documentation of socio-environmental conflicts of the University. He recalled that in recent times, he dedicated himself to analyzing and denouncing, among others, the impact of the Emisor Oriente Tunnel in the Mezquital Valley, the Regional Sanitary Landfill in the Dendhó Community and the Wastewater Treatment Plant of Atotonilco. The UACM regretted his death and called the Prosecutor’s Office and the competent authorities of the state of Hidalgo, “so that his death be clarified immediately.”

Meanwhile, the organization Article 19 lamented and condemned the disappearance and subsequent murder of Pérez Romero, journalist, land and territory defender, and student. He pointed out that he disappeared on February 12 and his body was located the next day. He recalled his collaborations and investigations and noted that he had a YouTube channel -El Perromero-, as well as documentaries on social networks and also on the Son Politikón_FM medium. “We demand that the Attorney General of the State of Hidalgo investigate promptly, impartially, and diligently, applying the Approved Protocol to investigate crimes committed against freedom of expression and determine the causes of the murder,” Article 19 said in a message on social networks.

In addition, he called on the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims (CEAV) of the Government of Mexico to provide comprehensive victim attention to people close to the journalist and accompany them in their process of demanding justice, truth and memory. “It is urgent to prevent journalists and activists from continuing to disappear and be murdered in the region,” the NGO said. It has yet to be confirmed that the murder of Pérez Romero was due to his journalistic work.

In 2022, Mexico signed up as the most dangerous “country at peace” for the press, concentrating 20% ​​of the murders of journalists in the world, with 13 cases, according to the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF). According to the organization Article 19, a total of 157 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000 in possible connection with their work. Of these, 37 have occurred during the current term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office on December 1, 2018.

Justice rules out criminal acts

The Justice of Hidalgo has confirmed the death of the journalist, indicating that apparently suffered a fall, according to the autopsy, which indicates that there are no traces of violence, reports ‘El Universal’. The results of forensic medicine have established a hematoma due to facial trauma, derived from the alleged fall, as the cause of death. However, the State Prosecutor’s Office has not provided further details about the event.

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