"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today announced that it will honor journalists from China, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, and Tunisia – as well as a champion of U.S. press freedom – at its 35th annual International Press Freedom Awards in New York this November. In a sign of the growing pressures on journalists around the world, […]
"Before journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima entered the [Special Jurisdiction for Peace] headquarters in Bogotá, where the Inter-American Court of Human Rights hearing on her case was being held, the Prosecutor's Office linked former directors of the [Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol] and [National Penitentiary and Prison Institute], among other former officials, with accusations of […]
"The Press and Society Institute (IPYS, for its acronym in Spanish) on Wednesday [Sept. 10] rejected a court ruling requiring a Peruvian media outlet in the southern Andean region of Puno to delete verified journalistic information it published online and on social media regarding a complaint against an irregular appointment in a court in that […]
"Last Wednesday [Sept. 10] night, emergency numbers received a report of an armed attack on a journalist's home in Aldama [Chihuahua]. According to reports from the Aldama municipal authority, which was the first to respond, two individuals on a motorcycle arrived at the home and called the victim by name, but fortunately, he was unharmed. […]
“During the inauguration of the still-unfinished Via Expresa Sur megaproject, Lima Mayor Rafael López Aliaga held a press conference, during which he attacked journalist Gustavo Gorriti and threatened to kill him using slang from the Peruvian underworld. 'We have to take this gentleman out once and for all,' he said, indicating that Gorriti would be […]
“Nicaraguan journalism lives between statelessness, self-censorship and imprisonment under the government led by husband and wife and co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, warned this Monday [Sept. 8] the NGO Human Rights Collective for the Historical Memory of Nicaragua. In a statement marking International Journalists' Day, the Collective denounced before the international community the situation […]
“It was around 1:30 p.m. on September 6, 2022, when Humberto Coronel, 33, was preparing to get in his car parked a few meters from the main gate of Radio Amambay AM, on 14 de Mayo and Cerro León streets, in Pedro Juan Caballero, capital of the Department of Amambay. A lone occupant of a […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today strongly condemned threats against the personal safety of Haitian journalist and press freedom advocate Joseph Guyler C. Delva, who was forced to suspend his professional activities amid escalating intimidation. Delva, secretary general of SOS Journalistes Haiti and IAPA vice chair of the Committee on Freedom of the Press […]
"The Armed Forces [in Honduras] are once again attacking EL HERALDO after it disclosed, through confidential sources, many of the internal movements within that institution. Following revelations by EL HERALDO Plus' Investigative Team about the departure of Brigadier General Ramiro Muñoz and how the high command is arranging things so that the institution follows the […]
"Venezuelan journalist and activist Melanio Escobar claimed that he has received new threats against his family from Chavista militants, whom he accused of being members of the Cartel de los Soles and the Tren de Aragua. 'The Chavistas who are members of the Cartel de los Soles and the Tren de Aragua threaten me daily […]
"Independent journalist Camila Acosta reported this Sunday [Sept. 7] that two State Security agents are constantly monitoring her home in Havana [Cuba]. In a post on her Facebook profile, she shared photos of the alleged repressors and explained that ‘the police car (there is at least one), according to friends and neighbors, is nearby, waiting […]
"Costa Rican journalist Adrián Quirós Araya was detained by Nicaraguan authorities on Friday, Sept. 5. He was on his way to cover the soccer match between the national teams of Costa Rican and Nicaragua, which ended in a 1-1 draw. According to a report by Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, [Quirós Araya] was going through formalities […]