On Oct. 6, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asked the Chilean Congress to reject the government's proposed penal code reform on the grounds that it violates fundamental freedoms of expression.
Na tarde deste domingo, 9 de outubro, o jornalista Antonio Carlos Ferrari foi agredido e ameaçado em um evento no município de Itaporã, no estado do Mato Grosso do Sul, informou o site Dourado News.
O jornalista Paulo Benito teve seu contrato cancelado com a TV Allamanda, afiliada do SBT no estado de Rondônia, na última quinta-feira, 6 de outubro, acusado de fazer "merchandising" de um político, segundo o site Gazeta de Rondônia.
After first going after Twitter for information about accounts of WikiLeaks supporters, now the U.S. government has obtained secret court orders forcing Google Inc. and the Internet provider Sonic.net to hand over the email addresses of anyone who has corresponded with WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum during the past two years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo has suspended the Indian-Hindu television station, channel CNS-TV6, during the four-month campaign window for the presidential elections, reported the Committee to Protect Journalists.
A Comissão Federal de Telecomunicações (Cofetel), órgão regulador deste setor no México, analisa um projeto para oferecer mais licenças de televisão aberta no país, informou o jornal El Universal.
Journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias of the Hablemos Press agency was detained on Sept. 30 and is currently awaiting expulsion from the Cuban capital of Havana to his hometown of Camagüey in the east of the communist country.
O presidente da Guiana, Bharrat Jagdeo, ordenou a suspensão das transmissões da emissora de TV CNS6 durante quatro meses, período que coincide com o das campanhas para a eleição presidencial, informou o Comitê para a Proteção dos Jornalistas (CPJ).
Gunmen fired six shots into the car of Brazilian reporter Sérgio Ricardo de Almeida da Luz on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the city of Toledo in the southern state of Paraná, reported the website O Paraná. The car was parked outside the reporter's home. No one was in the car during the attack.
The director of the site Código Venezuela, journalist Milagros Socorro, announced that hackers attacked her blog, Twitter and e-mail accounts in retaliation for criticizing President Chavez's communications ministry, reported the website La Patilla.
The International Press Institute (IPI) announced that 12 Latin American journalists received death threats in the last month. The grim practice has become disturbingly common in countries like Honduras and Peru, where the highest number of cases originated.
Um homem que se identificou como membro da organização criminosa Los Urabeños chamou uma emissora de rádio da cidade de Valledupar, no nordeste da Colômbia, para informar que havia recebido ordens de atentar contra a vida de várias pessoas, entre elas uma jornalista, de acordo com a Fundação para a Liberdade de Imprensa (FLIP, na sigla em espanhol) da Colômbia.