Murder, torture and abuse: rights commission covers up crimes against migrants
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has covered up crimes against migrants including murder, torture, mass kidnappings and rape, according to an investigation by a digital newspaper.
Animal Político reported that between September 2019 and February 2020, the CNDH drew up 32 documents containing migrants’ testimonies of a range of crimes committed against them. Some of the victims were women, teenagers and children, said the news website,
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According to migrants who spoke with the CNDH, members of organized crime gangs as well as state and federal police were involved in the offenses.
Authorities in Mexico said they will not pursue criminal charges against a former defense minister who US prosecutors accused of colluding with organized
TikTok to flag and downrank ‘unsubstantiated’ claims fact checkers can’t verify
TikTok this morning announced a new feature that aims to combat the spread of misinformation on its platform. In addition to removing videos that are identified to be spreading false information, as verified by fact-checking partners, the company says it will now also flag videos where fact checks are inconclusive. These videos may also become ineligible for promotion into anyone’s For You page, TikTok notes.
The new feature will first launch in the U.S. and Canada, but will become globally available in the “coming weeks.”
The company explains that fact checkers aren’t always able to verify the information being reported in users’ videos. This could be because the fact check is inconclusive or can’t be immediately confirmed, such as in the case of “unfolding events.” (The recent storming of the U.S. Capitol comes to mind as an “unfolding event” that led to a surge of social me
12 police arrested in connection with massacre of 19 in Tamaulipas State police suspected of homicide, abuse of authority and falsifying information
Published on Wednesday, February 3, 2021
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Twelve Tamaulipas state police officers are in custody for homicide, abuse of authority and falsifying information in the deaths of 19 people found in two burned vehicles in Camargo last month.
State Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica told a press conference Tuesday that his office is pursuing two lines of investigating in determining the cause of the January 22 killings: one is related to known battles for control over the region by organized crime groups, and the other to migrant smuggling, which is common in the area.
In Iguala, murder and threats by organized crime shut down the news The gangs are angry. They don’t want us to report on the things that are happening
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Just before 1:00 a.m. on August 2, Pablo Morrugares, a journalist and restaurateur, opened the Facebook page for his news site and began a live broadcast from the cafe he owned in Iguala, in Mexico’s southwestern Guerrero state.
A well-known local reporter, Morrugares covered crime and gangs, a beat so dangerous that Mexican authorities had placed him under the protection of a police officer, who sat by his side at the cafe.