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On October 2nd, 2013, in Mexico City, during the 45th Anniversary Memorial Demonstration of the 1968 Students' Massacre in Tlatelolco,
88 people were injured and 102 were arrested.
As we carried out our communications work, more than 50 journalists including photojournalists, reporters and cameramen,
we were assaulted, mainly by police officers in uniform, and also by police officers in civilian clothes and individuals whose faces were masked.
This is the most recent chapter of the escalation of violence and repression against social protest.
We are facing a recurring situation.
Journalists, documentary makers, demonstrators and human rights activists
are being assaulted for recording demonstrations with their cameras and cell phones.
Mexico is a democratic state,
and these abuses are a result of a breakdown in the rule of law.
Facing this, we, the journalists, raise our voices.
We feel outraged by the increasing insecurity in which we must perform our jobs.
These acts violate the freedom of speech protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the American Convention of Human Rights and the Mexican Constitution.
We seek to have informed citizens, because without a free press, there is no democracy.
Thus: We demand the right to inform and to be informed.
We demand an investigation of the culprits and penalization of the assailants.
We demand that police officers be trained and disciplined on protocols to guarantee the right of the press to carry out their work.
We demand that this not be repeated.
This video was produced by a group of Mexican journalists who participated in their personal capacity.