Mexico
Photographer Gabriel Huge Córdoba was detainedPosted Apr 11 2008
Members of the Mexican Federal Preventive Police (PFP) detained and assaulted photographer Gabriel Huge Córdoba on Feb. 25 after he sought to cover a fatal car accident involving police in Veracruz, the Committee to Protect Journalists reports.
Huge works for Veracruz-based daily Notiver as a crime photographer. He was among several local journalists at the scene of an accident involving a PFP convoy. PFP officers told reporters to leave but Huge stayed in a side street taking pictures. There the officers grabbed him, hit him with a riffle butt and took him away in a pick up truck.
He was driven around for several hours and repeatedly kicked in when he was taken to the Veracruz State Prosecutor’s office to be charged with insulting authorities.
The list of cases of illegal detentions and other acts of aggression against journalists have been increasing at an alarming rate reports the International Freedom of Expression eXchange.
Huge was later released and he is planning to file a formal complaint with the general prosecutor and to local human rights authorities.