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One more journalist killed

10 November 2009 12:53 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Jose Vladimir Antuna Garcia, crime reporter for the Mexican El Tiempo de Durango newspaper, was kidnapped and killed, International Press Institute told International Eurasian Press Fund, APA reports. He was kidnapped while driving to work and his body was found outside a hospital in Durango City with signs of strangulation and gunshot wounds. The body was accompanied by a note saying: â€œThis happened to me for giving information to the military and writing what I shouldnâ€™t have. Regards, Vladimir.â€
International Press Institute called on the Mexican government to put an end to the murder of journalists and to take urgent actions to punish the guilty people.
â€œWe are saddened and appalled by the death of our brave colleague, JosÃ© Vladimir Antuna GarcÃa. We offer our condolences to his family and again call on the Mexican authorities to ensure that those behind the vicious killings of journalists are brought to justice,â€ said IPI Deputy Director Alison Bethel McKenzie.
Antuna, had reported receiving at least three recent death threats. In April, unknown people shot him near his house, but he could avoid the assassination. This is the third killing of a journalist in Durango state this year, following the unsolved assassinations of Carlos Ortega Samper and Eliseo BarrÃ³n Laguna.