After freeing Mexican journalist, US authorities urged to grant his asylum request
Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, a journalist with the Mexican newspaper El Diario, was released yesterday after being held for seven months by the US immigration authorities in the Texan border city of El Paso. He fled across the border on 15 June 2008 after receiving threats believed to have come from military personnel. It is not yet known when the US authorities will examine his asylum request.