62nd
General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 to October 3, 2006
Camino Real Hotel
Reports and Resolutions
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IMPUNITY-ARGENTINA
GUATEMALA, HAITI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Resolution of the 62nd General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 – October 3, 2006
WHEREAS
former policeman Aníbal Luna, convicted for the crime against photographer
José Luis Cabezas on January 25, 1997, was freed at the end of August
after serving two-thirds of the sentence imposed by an appeals court in Buenos
Aires province, and, because of the same appeal, an application of Law, No.
23.390 (“two for two”), the civilians involved, known as “Los
Horneros,” were also freed in 2005
WHEREAS
Eduardo Heriberto Mass Bol, correspondent of Radio Punto, was murdered September
10 in Cobán, Alta Verapaz, in the north of Guatemala, and Government
Minister Carlos Vielman and the national attorney general, Juan Luis Florido,
promised to conduct a rapid and thorough investigation
WHEREAS
Jean Leopold Dominique, a political commentator on Radio Haití Inter
was murdered April 3, 2000 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and investigations for
a reopening of the case are stalled and the crime has not been solved
WHEREAS
Juan Andújar, correspondent of the newspaper Listín Diario in
Azua, Dominican Republic was murdered on September 14, and while the main suspect
is in jail, there has been no legal resolution of the case; and the murders
of Gregorio García, March 28, 1973; Orlando Martínez, March 17,
1975, and Narcisco González, May 26, 1994, have not been solved
WHEREAS
Principle 4 of the Declaration of Chapultepec says “Freedom of expression
and of the press are severely limited by murder, terrorism, kidnapping, pressure,
intimidation, the unjust imprisonment of journalists, the destruction of facilities,
violence of any kind and impunity for perpetrators. Such acts must be investigated
promptly and punished harshly
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE IAPA RESOLVES
to deeply deplore the release
of those convicted for the Cabezas crime and trust that conditions will be created
so that those responsible will be severely punished
to urge the Guatemalan authorities
to investigate the murder of Mass in order to clarify who is responsible and
find out the motives
to demand that the Haitian
government reopen the Dominique case to bring those responsible to justice
to reiterate to the judicial
authorities in the Dominican Republic the need for a more effective process
in the Andújar murder, and that the authorities in charge follow up and
intensify the investigations of the unpunished crimes against García,
Martínez and González.
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