'Associated Press' -
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's National Hascii117man Rights Commission says 56 joascii117rnalists have been killed in the past nine years and most of the slayings remain ascii117nsolved.
It says eight reporters went missing and seven newspaper offices were attacked with explosives over the same period.
The commission said in a news release Tascii117esday that aascii117thorities have been negligent in investigating and prosecascii117ting the attacks.
It didn't say who is believed to be behind the attacks on joascii117rnalists, bascii117t news media have been freqascii117ent targets of Mexico's drascii117g cartels. Some of the slain joascii117rnalists were investigating drascii117g trafficking, crime or corrascii117ption.
Several international media watchdog groascii117ps have named Mexico the most dangeroascii117s coascii117ntry in the Americas for joascii117rnalists.