In the last five years, 66 journalists have been killed and 12 journalists have disappeared in Mexico, according to a report by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
There has been a conviction in only 10% of the cases, prompting NHRC's Fernando Batista Jiménez to describe impunity as the greatest assault on freedom of expression.
He told the Association of Business Communicators of Oaxaca
that the Mexican government has documented 308 complaints by media workers in five years.
He said: "There has been growth in the human rights violations against journalists."
Jiménez was speaking as a prelude to the signing of an agreement for security protocols that guarantee the right to freedom of expression and freedom of information.
Source (in Spanish): El Diario English translation by Google
