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Mexican Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto to Get New U.S. Asylum Hearing

HeadlineMay 24, 2018

Meanwhile, Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and his son Oscar have been granted a new asylum hearing in Texas, which could see them released from an immigration detention center where they’ve been held since December. Gutiérrez first sought asylum in the United States in 2008 after receiving death threats for reporting on alleged corruption in the Mexican military. Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with at least four media workers killed so far this year alone. Click here to see our full jailhouse interview with Emilio Gutiérrez Soto.

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