{"id":6992,"date":"2018-08-31T23:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=91760"},"modified":"2018-08-31T23:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:00:47","slug":"ppf-seeks-justice-for-mexican-cameraman-enrique-rodriguez-valladares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/ppf-seeks-justice-for-mexican-cameraman-enrique-rodriguez-valladares\/","title":{"rendered":"PPF seeks justice for Mexican cameraman Enrique Rodr\u00edguez Valladares"},"content":{"rendered":"\"PPF

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto, President of Mexico has expressed concern over the killing of Javier Enrique Rodr\u00edguez Valladares, a cameraman for a local television channel.<\/p>\n

PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter, condemned this brutal attack on the cameraman and urged the Mexican government to thoroughly investigate the murder of Rodr\u00edguez Valladares and identify those responsible for this act.<\/p>\n

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on August 29, at around 6:00 in the afternoon Rodr\u00edguez Valladares was shot dead by unidentified assailants. He was working as a cameraman for Canal 10, a local television channel based in Canc\u00fan, in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo.<\/p>\n

El Balc\u00f3n, a local news website, uploaded a video on its Facebook page in which Germ\u00e1n Espiridi\u00f3n, a coworker of Rodr\u00edguez Valladares said, \u201cThe reporter had previously worked for national broadcaster Televisa and that he also bought and sold cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a statement by the state attorney general\u2019s office, the cameraman was attacked on Supermanzana 29, a street in the residential area in Canc\u00fan. He was with another person who was also killed but his identity is still unknown.<\/p>\n

The statement further added that at the time of the attack the cameraman was off duty and not wearing any press ID, and also that it was still not clear whether Rodr\u00edguez Valladares was killed because of his profession.<\/p>\n

This is the third deadly attack on journalists in Quintana Roo in the last two months. On July 24, Rub\u00e9n Pat Cauich, co-founder and editorial director of online news outlet\u00a0Semanario Playa News, was\u00a0murdered\u00a0in Playa del Carmen, a resort city south of Canc\u00fan. Another reporter for\u00a0Playa News, Jos\u00e9 Guadalupe Chan Dzib,\u00a0was also murdered on June 29\u00a0in the town of Sab\u00e1n. No accused have been detained in either case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"PPFPakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico has expressed concern over the killing of Javier Enrique Rodríguez Valladares, a cameraman for a local television channel. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter, condemned this brutal attack on the cameraman and urged the Mexican government to thoroughly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[4,903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}