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Monday, November 26, 2007

A Mexican Supreme Court judge concludes public officials violated journalist's human rights

: A study by a Supreme Court justice reasons that government violated the human rights of a journalist who exposed a paedophile ring set up by rich powerfulness agents in Cancun.

A study released Monday by judge Juan Silva Meza establish that at least 30 populace officials, including Puebla De Zaragoza state Gov. Mario Marin, conspired to mistreat power, monger influence and go against the rights of journalist Lydia Cacho, who was jailed in December 2005 after implicating politicians and man of affairs in a sweeping sexual activity scandal.

"There was an understanding between government in Puebla De Zaragoza and Quintana Roo to conflict on the individual rights of the journalist," Silva Meza said Monday as the high tribunal prepared to reexamine his findings.

In her book "The Demons of Eden," Cacho chronicled the alleged deeds of Cancun man of affairs Jean Succar Kuri, who is accused of luring mediocre misses to his place so he and his friends could have got sexual activity with them.

Succar Kuri have denied the claims and expects trial on complaints of kid pornography and kid sexual maltreatment after being extradited from the United States. Today in Americas

After the book's publication, audio tapes released to the public captured Marin and a friend of Succar Kuri plotting to jailhouse Cacho, who was whisked away from Cancun without account by a train of out-of-state police.

Cacho said she was verbally abused on a 1,500 kilometer- (900 mile-) drive to a prison house in Puebla, where she was charged with calumny and released on bail. Those complaints were later dismissed.

Outraged by what they considered Marin's backslapping command to hush a whistle blower, some Mexicans called for the governor's impeachment. But only Puebla's legislative assembly have the authorization to take him from office. The legislature, dominated by his allies in the Institutional Revolutionist Party, declined to take him.

The Supreme Court have since intervened to look into Cacho's human rights accusations, which could open up the door for United States Congress to deprive Marin of the legal unsusceptibility he basks as governor.

For her reporting, Cacho received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation last month.

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