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Protest march after the murder of journalist Miroslava Breach (archive picture): According to Reporters Without Borders, eight media workers were killed last year
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In 2017, the journalist Miroslava Breach was shot in Mexico.
Now the former Mexican mayor Hugo Schultz has to go to prison for his involvement in the murder, according to information from a human rights organization.
Schultz was sentenced to eight years in prison in Mexico.
This was announced by the non-governmental organization Propuesta Cívica, which takes care of legal counsel for the von Breach family.
As ex-mayor of the northwestern Mexican town of Chínipas, Schultz had passed on information about Breach to the criminal group that murdered her.
The politician of the conservative party Pan confessed, it was said.
After an agreement between the parties in the process, he would also have to pay a fine and apologize publicly.
The 53-year-old Breach was shot dead in the car outside her home in Chihuahua City on March 23, 2017 when she was about to take her 14-year-old daughter to school. She had worked in the state of the same name for the newspapers »La Jornada« and »El Norte« and reported, among other things, on connections between politicians and drug traffickers - also in Chínipas, which is in the mountainous region from which Breach came. An alleged leader of the Los Salazar drug cartel, alleged to have ordered the murder of Breach, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in August. Propuesta Cívica calls for the arrest of other people involved.
The Special Prosecutor's Office for Crimes Against Freedom of Expression believed that Breach's work was the cause of her murder.
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists: inside.
Last year, according to the organization Reporters Without Borders, eight media workers were killed because of or at work - more than in any other state.
The vast majority of crimes in the North American country are never solved.
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