IFEX ::"(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) - On 23 September 2008, more than four years after the beginning of legal proceedings, a Mexico City judge exonerated journalist Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa in a case brought against him by Congressman Gerardo Sosa Castelán. Judge Miguel Ángel Robles Villegas, however, sentenced writer Alfredo Rivera Flores to pay an as yet to be determined fine in the same case."
Reporters sans frontières - Mexico"Reporters Without Borders voices its support for EXA FM, a local radio station based in Villahermosa (the capital of the southeastern state of Tabasco), following the fatal shooting of one of its programme hosts, Alejandro Xenón Fonseca Estrada, on 23 September. The organisation is outraged that neither federal nor state investigators had contacted the station nearly 24 hours after the murder."
