In February 2019, journalist and environmental activist Samir Flores was shot twice in the head at his home in Amilcingo, an indigenous village in Morelos, Mexico.
His murderers still go unidentified.
In February 2019, journalist and environmental activist Samir Flores was shot twice in the head at his home in Amilcingo, an indigenous village in Morelos, Mexico.
His murderers still go unidentified.
Samir’s assassination follows a disturbing trend of unsolved murders of environmental and human rights defenders, the majority of them Indigenous.
The number of journalists killed for their reporting doubled in 2020.
At least 30 journalists were killed the past year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 21 assassinated as a direct result of their work.
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