Arturo Sánchez Jiménez, Alonso Urrutia, Georgina Saldierna and Andrea Becerril
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, p. 15
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo called yesterday for society not to allow the normalization of any type of violence against women.
For years, women were used, and still in advertisements, objectifying women as if we were a sexual object, and that cannot continue to be
he assured in his press conference at the National Palace.
He was asked about the complaint filed by Morena senator Andrea Chávez against a cartoonist from a national newspaper who published a manipulated sexual image of the legislator on social media; The president declared: “it is a call: a pattern of violence cannot continue in our country for the sole fact of being a woman.
When a senator is attacked on social networks for being a woman, beyond the legal complaint, society cannot allow that to happen, because the attacks begin that way and end in other ways.
he pointed out.
Freedom of expression
He maintained that what was published by the cartoonist it’s degrading
and said that it has no basis in freedom of expression.
A call to this cartoonist, cartoonist, monero, and others, that this violence against women cannot become normal
he added.
Additionally, Senator Chávez reported that she filed a criminal complaint with the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City against the cartoonist.
He explained in the Senate that both the Penal Code and the International Code of Journalistic Ethics and the Global Ethical Charter for Journalists clearly establish the scope of freedom of expression, which does not operate in cases of defamation and all types of violence against women.
Press conference
Accompanied by senators from the Fourth Transformation, Chávez gave a press conference in which she highlighted that the criminal offense in Mexico City not only punishes the person who created the image, but also the person who spreads it, whether true or false. So, regardless of whether Monero manufactured it or not, he dedicated himself to disseminating it, he pointed out.
Andrea Chávez emphasized that her perpetrator victimized himself, saying that there was political persecution against him, that it threatened his freedom of expression and he even requested asylum and refuge from international organizations. But the complaint in no way has to do with politics, the legislator emphasized.
