Jessica Sänger, Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee said: Both authors and publishers of non-fiction books are consistently targeted by SLAPPs in many jurisdictions. The case of the Todo a la Luz by Karla de la Cuesta shows how all legal and administrative routes to limiting a book’s circulation are considered, even the most untenable. The IPA fully supports Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial’s freedom to publish and will back them in their judicial appeal against this incomprehensible ruling.
In PRH Grupo Editorial’s communications, Quetzalli de la Concha, legal and copyright manager of PRH, described the ruling as “pure censorship” and warned of the dangerous precedent that ruling set. “The IMPI resolution creates a right of veto in favor of any person named in a journalistic investigation. If this criterion remains, no one will be able to use the name of a public figure to report on it or criticize it without their prior authorization, under threat of fines.”
PRH Grupo Editorial has filed a judicial appeal including an Amicus Brief from the International Publishers Association.
Read the statement by the Mexican Publishers Association, CANIEM, here: https://www.facebook.com/CANIEMoficial/posts/pfbid0BpiA4hpV5r89vb5btnAZFuA7qsB1ZrQQZfkF8e2ALBJJnVJ75ijyy26YaEGJCkv9l
In English on IPA’s site here: https://internationalpublishers.org/concerns-for-freedom-of-expression-in-mexico-caniems-response-to-impis-decision-on-todo-a-la-luz/
Read the statement by PEN International here:
https://www.pen-international.org/news/mexico-pen-international-calls-on-mexican-authorities-to-guarantee-editorial-freedom-and-freedom-of-expression
Read IPA Past President Hugo Setzer on the case:
https://internationalpublishers.org/opinion/freedom-to-publish-in-mexico-the-case-of-penguin/