Hundreds protest in Mexico against woman’s brutal murder
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Hundreds of people gathered in Mexico City on Friday to protest against the murder of a young woman with more protests planned over the weekend.
Ingrid Escamilla, 25, was stabbed to death allegedly by a man she lived with, who then mutilated her body in an attempt to hide the evidence.
Forensic workers leaked images of her corpse, and a local newspaper has been criticised for published one of these pictures on its front page.
Femicide, the gender-based killing of women, is on the rise in Mexico.
Women demonstrate during a Valentine’s Day protest against femicide outside the newspaper La Prensa in Mexico City, Mexico, 14 February 2020. EPA-EFE/SASHENKA GUTIERREZ
More than 700 cases are currently being investigated, but activists say the number of women killed because of their gender is much higher.
The protesters, most of them women, moved through the Mexican capital holding placards calling for “responsible journalism,” and chanting slogans like “not one more murder”.
Earlier this month, many Mexicans flooded social media with photos of wildlife and natural landscapes, using the hashtag #IngridEscamilla to drown out the photos of her body circulating online.
