{"id":30532,"date":"2011-12-02T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=30532"},"modified":"2012-01-03T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T13:53:50","slug":"mexico-slander-and-libel-decreminalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=30532","title":{"rendered":"Mexico: Slander and libel decreminalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slander and libel have <a title=\"Knight Center : Mexico decriminalizes slander and libel\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/mexico-decriminalizes-slander-and-libel?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kcblogen+%28Journalism+in+the+Americas%29\" target=\"_blank\">been decriminalised<\/a> by the <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Mexico\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican<\/a> Senate. The senate approved the repeal of Articles 1 and 31 of the Crimes Act, with a <a title=\"El Universal : Senate decriminalised libel and slander\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eluniversal.com.mx\/notas\/812409.html\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous decision<\/a>. Mexico have joined <a title=\"Index on Censorship : President supports bill decriminalising libel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/10\/el-salvador-president-supports-bill-decriminalising-libel\/\" target=\"_blank\">El Salvador<\/a> as the second Latin American country to decriminalise honour crimes. The decision follows the end of a seven-year defamation trial\u00a0where the newspaper La Jornada accused magazine Letras Libres\u00a0of <a title=\"Knight Center : Mexican newspaper loses libel lawsuit against magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/mexican-newspaper-loses-libel-lawsuit-against-magazine\" target=\"_blank\">damaging its reputation<\/a>. The court determined that freedom of expression supersedes the right to honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slander and libel have been decriminalised by the Mexican Senate. The senate approved the repeal of Articles 1 and 31 of the Crimes Act, with a unanimous decision. Mexico have joined El Salvador as the second Latin American country to decriminalise honour crimes. The decision follows the end of a seven-year defamation trial\u00a0where the newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[744,584,585],"tags":[1705,241,7373,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31592,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions\/31592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}