US - RSF joins letter denouncing attempt to deport Mexican journalist

November 18, 2017

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joined multiple press freedom groups in the following letter today denouncing attempts to deport Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto from the United States.

The National Press Club, its Journalism Institute and other advocates for press freedom and immigration justice urge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend efforts to deport Emilio Gutierrez, a winner of the club’s Press Freedom Award.

Late on Friday, an immigration judge in El Paso, Texas, refused to stay the deportation of Gutierrez from the United States — where and his son fled after his investigative reporting led to threats against himself and his family. Gutierrez requested asylum in the United States; it took eight years for him to get a hearing, which took place last year.

“Gutierrez fled his country because his reporting jeopardized him and his family and then faced years of bureaucratic indifference before now being threatened with removal,” said NPC President Jeff Ballou. “He deserves better from a country that has enshrined protections for the press in the First Amendment of its Constitution.”

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