MEXICO CITY — Mexican human-rights officials on Monday urged prosecutors to re-examine the 2006 killing of a U.S. journalist-activist and questioned findings blaming his shooting death on members of the protest movement he had been filming.
Bradley Roland Will, of New York, a 36-year-old reporter for , was shot while filming a clash in Oaxaca state.
On Friday, federal prosecutors announced that two supporters of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca, or APPO, had been arrested in connection with Will’s killing. APPO seized control of Oaxaca city for almost five months in 2006 to push for the ouster of Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
The arrests were criticized both by APPO — which contends the men are innocent — and Will’s family, who blame pro-government gunmen.
