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Mexican ex-mayor arrested in journalist murder case
AFP, CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico
A former mayor from northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state was on Thursday arrested for “complicity” in the 2017 murder of journalist Miroslava Breach, authorities said.
A Chihuahua court “has succeeded in establishing the probable responsibility” of Hugo Amed Shultz, a former mayor of Chinipas, for having “sought and provided information to an organized crime group which ordered and carried out the murder,” the Chihuahua Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement without providing further details.
Mexico is regularly rated by journalism watchdog Reporters Without Borders as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.