The Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (ONU-DH) expressed his condemnation this Saturday for the murder of journalist Alejandro Gallegos Leónwhich occurred in the state of Tabasco, in the south of the country, and demanded that the authorities carry out an exhaustive investigation into the crime.
“We condemn the disappearance and murder of journalist Alejandro Gallegos León in #Tabasco, who was last seen yesterday and found dead this morning in the municipality of Cárdenas,” said the UN-DH in a message on social networks.
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The organization highlighted that Gallegos León was founder of the media La Voz del Pueblo and that, until his death, he worked as a columnist in Tabasco Hoy and a teacher.
“We call on the authorities to carry out an effective investigation that considers his journalistic work as a line of investigation”he emphasized, while expressing his solidarity with the communicator’s family and loved ones in this “difficult moment.”
This Saturday, the organization Article 19 reported on the homicide this Saturday of the communicator, after he was reported missing on Friday, information that was confirmed by the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE).
After demanding justice for the facts, he asked the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Attention of Crimes Committed Against Freedom of Expression (FEADLE), of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to attract the case and consider Gallegos’ employment information as crime motive.
Gallegos, who was a columnist and professor, stopped having communication with his family since Friday the 24th, around 2:25 p.m. local time. (20:45 GMT).
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According to testimonies from the journalist’s colleagues expressed in Article 19, Alejandro specialized in covering educational and political issues, in addition to managing the citizen complaint page La Voz del Pueblo, Noticias Sin Censura.
The murder of Gallegos represents a new blow to press freedom in Mexico, where since 2000 there have been more than 169 murders of journalists, of which two have been recorded in the current administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office on October 1, 2024.
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