Online Petition for Award-Winning Journalist Reaches 12,000 Signatures In Four Days
Summary
His denial of asylum is based on a challenge to his professional standing as a journalist and on his inability to satisfy the judge that his life is at risk if he is deported to Mexico.According to a recent report by the United Nations, Mexico has one of the worst records in the world with respect to violence against journalists.In a Dec. 12, 2017 editorial the Washington Post called for Mr. Gutierrez to be granted asylum by the government of the United States.Your signature will join the thousands of others in an expression to a court filing that may lead to renewed freedom for this award-winning journalist.Related Links WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Dec. 11 the National Press Club started an online petition -- Change.org/FreeEmilio -- designed to help obtain the release of Mexican Journalist Emilio Gutierrez and his son Oscar who are currently being held in the El Paso Detention Center as their legal team scrambles to block their deportation to Mexico.