UN Secretary General leads a moment of silence on World Press Freedom Day 2012. The United Nations honored the 74 journalists killed since 2011.This past weekend, over 100 journalists in  protested around a statue where a mock note said in translation, "Government Journalist Killer" in reaction to deaths in . Recent journalist killings have also provoked international condemnation. Journalists around the  and the government of Veracruz are reacting to the dismembered bodies of four  , three of them photojournalists, who were found in a canal in the state of , Mexico, on Thursday, which happened to coincide with , which is held on May 3 every year. In March 2012, the Mexican Congress approved a Constitutional amendment to make it a federal offense to attack a journalist and that would need six more states to sign on before it would become the law. Over the last ten years, the toll of the has been high on journalists as more than 80 have been killed and another fourteen are missing, according to  . Almost 50,000 people have died during Mexican President  drug war.
UN Secretary General leads a moment of silence on World Press Freedom Day 2012. The United Nations honored the 74 journalists killed since 2011.This past weekend, over 100 journalists in Mexico City protested around a statue where a mock note said in translation, "Government Journalist Killer" in reaction to deaths in . Recent journalist killings have also provoked international condemnation. Journalists around the nation and the government of Veracruz are reacting to the dismembered bodies of four Mexicans , three of them photojournalists, who were found in a canal in the state of , Mexico, on Thursday, which happened to coincide with , which is held on May 3 every year. In March 2012, the Mexican Congress approved a Constitutional amendment to make it a federal offense to attack a journalist and that would need six more states to sign on before it would become the law. Over the last ten years, the toll of the has been high on journalists as more than 80 have been killed and another fourteen are missing, according to Reporters Without Borders . Almost 50,000 people have died during Mexican President Felipe Calderón's drug war.
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