Mexico City.
Mexico City Police they attacked and held on this Monday at four o’clock photo reporters, one of them from the Efe agency, which has a demonstration in the metro of the capital at the International Women’s Day.
The events took place around noon in the station Hidalgo Metro, in the center of the capital when female photographersthey followed one women’s march which the facilities of the suburb.
According to the report by Sáshenka Gutiérrez, a photojournalist from Efe, dozens of police officers “ started the fellow photographersand they tried to arrest despite the fact that they always identified as journalists.
Besides Sáshenka Gutiérrez, they were too beaten Gabriela Esquivel, 24 hours; Leslie Pérez, from the Heraldo de México, and Graciela López, from Cuartoscuro.
These last two became handcuffed and tied up cagainst the wall police officers.
“They didn’t want to release us, they closed it metro access and they returned to us stairs, US they pulled the hair and they ignored that we were press. They wanted us delete the cameras “, explained Gutiérrez, who recorded videos of what happened.
In addition, the police activated it fire extinguishers around the visibility and hit them again.
Of the photo reporters were able to get out, aided by protesters who returned to look for them, while the other two were kept till the Marabunta Brigade, an NGO that defends that free demonstration He intervened with the police.
After the departure, Gutiérrez explained that everything is going well, except for Leslie Pérez, who has a few cuts on the hands by women.
On learning what happened, the Ministry of Public Security of the Mexico City clarified in social networks that “women are notn withheld ‘ and assured that “examine the facts.”
He then contacted the Efe office to meet more details about what happened.
Following the demonstrations of the Women’s Day, central Mexico City woke up this Monday with, among other things, reinforced securitys closed entrances.
Unlike in previous years, the government raised a huge amountand metal wall around the National Palace, residence of the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to prevent feminist protesters from using the build walls.
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The billboard, criticized by the feminist movement as a symbol of oppression, became a tribute to women this weekend. femicide victims, with flowers and graffiti.
Last year, Mexico registered 967 femicides, 16,545 crimes of rape and a history of more than 260,000 emergency calls related to violence against woman.
Moreover, it is one of the countries of the world’s most dangerous in the press for attacks by authorities and organized crime, and in 2020, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), at least eight journalists will be murdered for their work in 2020. EFE