The leading American author Russell Banks
set the tone on Sunday
as he stood among international writers and their local colleagues in Mexico
City: “A nation’s journalists and writers, like its poets and story-tellers,
are the eyes, ears and mouths of the people. When journalists cannot freely
speak of what they see and hear of the reality that surrounds them, the people
cannot see, hear, or speak it either.” Banks is among the leaders of a
high-level PEN International
delegation that is meeting with top Mexican officials to pressure them to
improve law enforcement in the murders of journalists, and to change the law to
bring more cases under the federal government’s jurisdiction.
from Committee to Protect Journalists http://cpj.org/blog/2012/01/in-mexico-mission-pen-speaks-for-a-silenced-press.php
Tags: Human Rights, Press Freedom
