[000:00:00;00] i've this is her reward and a special moment for the nickel hernandez as well as for the audience celebrating with her. i am very moved to be with you today being here has forced me to reflect on my life and my career as a journalist on all the if things i have done and one of the things i still have to do usually in there with a life we journalist don't stop to think about this morning in may he come

in the last 90 years i have software see be reprisals for my investing at the world . and in the midst of the symbiote meant it is even more difficult to pause for a moment to think about one self. her work in mexico put her directly in the face of danger a clip shown at the global media forum introduce the audience to hernandez's reporting. in mexico the drug cartels are tightly interwoven into the fabric of everyday life citizens are confronted by violent crime on a daily basis politicians the military and the police complicit murders and disappearances of journalists have become a real threat mexico is the deadliest nation in the world for journalists annabel had and is is one of mexico's leading investigative journalists she spent her career reporting on the so-called narco system of the drug cartels exposing

corruption and 6 year old exploitation pan and is also researched the disappearance and presumed murder of $43.00 students in the city of. piecing together witness accounts and contrasting them with official reports had mendez provides a forensic account of a mass murder linking the murders to corrupt public and police officials members of the mexican military and the drug gangs. are groundbreaking reporting and books investigating the connections between mexican government officials and the drug cartels in the country has come with a price you know there's a lot that didn't know i was left whereas the mexican government tried to kill me asked had been trying to kill too many other journalists. that tried to say that about this condition. g.w.

is honoring anabel hernandez with the freedom of speech award 2019. it was a stirring moment for d.w.i. host pierre castro as well she too is from latin america that we have given her here. where we miss her we miss her in latin america we would like her to work in latin america she's an inspiration not only for journalists for for all the mothers in mexico that are still searching for their children for all this mothers that cannot get access to the information you need to find out where are your children and i'm talking about thousands of thousands of young people that have disappeared in the past 12 years so what about thank you very much for being here the situation in mexico eventually became too dangerous for hernandez she had to flee to europe where she lives in exile for moms are contemplate the bullet proof

vest that the mexican government gave me on 2016 shortly before publishing my last book on the case of the 43 students who disappeared in the state of guerrero on september of 2014. it was that way. you have gone too far in your investigations but even with the best in front of me i refused to think about myself under any is that it has always been something more important to and justice yes. i am here before you today but they almost think years that they have leave on their tracks more than 100 journalists have been executed in my contrie as artists of the job. journalists like bill seen

a partner who risked her life to report on mothers searching for their children in mexico the children somehow came into contact with drug cartels and then suddenly disappeared the journalist has found several burial sites. but the cartels are on the present and their next victim could be one of the mothers or one of the journalists. or yup all that doesn't look like a secret graveyard doesn't it no ok people here i think so and if it is the people who buried these bodies here might come back please have them send security we keep telling them that we're scared in a way that hernandez has been marked by the many deaths and disappearances that she's covered she dedicated her freedom of speech award to these victims these price is not for me i can

hear it today is so more than their 125 journalists who have been more there and for all those who day by day continue to do their job with at the ex and in do announce jess. they want us dead they want to silence but we still standing and we make our boys hurt thank you thank people audience in bonn was visibly moved by her speech thank you. and i love my thank i think that she powerful fearless human being she. you

know for had to be able to withstand that amount of pressure that's amount of. you know intimidation from a government and yet to courageously go forward with with story telling has started telling with as she says an ethical mindset for me it's beautiful it's something that's worth emulating i have may sound a video and i would like to show my children because i think it's. it's very important have so cute and. i'm glad. to be here she's dreaded there are 3 my as that you know freedom of expression is a struggle for truth the defense of democracy is really what we are doing we as journalists are doing this with him and i'm still so moved there

were tears in my eyes it was so emotional. and completely speechless what an incredible one and. michoud plenty laudatory speaker expressed his respect for and about hernandez. today's recipient of the dog freedom of speech award 2019 is in a sense a walking miracle. and that miracle is simply the fact that she is still with us ana belen and knows only too well how fortunate she is to be alive because she has lost so many friends and colleagues to the gunman's bullet. she's glenny also took the opportunity to compliment her writing use i have been reading annabel's pieces and her books and that in addition to her incredibly painstaking research she is also

a most elegant stylist she is fighting injustice both with truth and with beauty. during the opening ceremony d w director general peter limburg asked from call to shine meyer how he saw the work of an about hernandez germany's president took the opportunity to encourage her and all other journalists in their mission. buttons eating wings braith peep report you need to yes which may make governments uncomfortable democracy needs all of you. d.w. will continue to pay tribute to journalists who do exceptional work and help preserve the freedom of the press one day there's going to be on freedom of

expression freedom of press is the brief we cannot be imaginable without freedom of press and this is so important for our work and so important for your work so i think we had to had to do something to to cherish freedom of press and to to give out this award and did was something which was really an affair of a heart of a heart for me i really wanted this because i think we can we can do some changes when we when we highlight the freedom of press and the people who really fight for freedom of press on a daily basis i mean all over what when is where in some kind of danger. some kind of pressure and i think this is so important to highlight it and we from media and international media we have the possibilities of spreading the news and freedom of press is a keystone of democracy so without it's doesn't work so i'm very happy that we have

this water money the 29000 winner said the award has given her additional strength she will continue her work and hopes for international collaboration with other journalists this crisis that is securing in mexico is very sort of one global power organized crime that he's not just in may he go east everywhere and what i want to talk about this night east if the cartels if all these people that concentrate brought more power every day work together why not the journalists why not the media why we still working related about throwing tears why we don't make a huge collective of investigate the of journalists to try to try to to talk about these these groups for example the car another kind of groups that concentrates too much power why we don't try to gather too made them weak

to show to the people how they work who are they are kompany says i thing these he said joe jordan at least have to do. by the end of the global media forum on a bill hernandez had gained new fans and perhaps even future collaborators. raring to bring. if there is any erotic benefits remember you have to find it between the wyatts. literature

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