Freedom of speech
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/14/mexico-freedom-of-speech-presumed-guilty
Jo Tuckman explains that the Mexican documentary named Presumed Guilty provoked a very controversial case, because it is about a man wrongly convicted of murder twice. This film won many awards and had a great recognition on spectators but only through piracy because formal communication media did not approved its transmission on TV, so as it was banned by Mexican authorities less than a month after its release.
The author argue that this film also triggered a hard debate on the Mexican judicial system and even the film maker is in a big trouble with justice because of this film, and its reported that he has received some dead threats,
The author explains that the story of the films describes the life of a street vendor convicted of murder on very flimsy evidence amid obvious abuses of authority and due process.
This article shows that the The film-maker has directly accused the Mexico City's judicial hierarchy. The author says that this accusation is directed to prove that the judges are secretly driving forward the cases against this film as a reprisal for the way the film exposed the entire system.
Tuckman points out that the documentary's legal problems must answer from complaints from a witness who admits, on camera, that he lied about seeing the street vendor, Antonio Zuñiga, shoot the murder victim. And it reports too that apparently the police office who arrested the vendor has complained because he was accused for arresting Zuñiga without a warrant or any proof.
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