"Peru's Judiciary postponed the start of the trial scheduled for this Thursday for the death of young journalist Melisa Alfaro, who died in 1991 due to the explosion of an envelope bomb, allegedly prepared by the Army Intelligence Service, during the government of then President Alberto Fujimori (...) In October 1991, Alfaro was 23 years […]
"The British journalist Dom Phillips has been laid to rest in Brazil, exactly three weeks after he was gunned down while journeying through the Amazon with the Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Pereira and Phillips, a longtime Guardian contributor, disappeared while travelling on the Itaquaí River on Sunday 5 June. […] Scores of mourners gathered at […]
"The Honduran College of Journalists (CPH) made a statement on June 23rd through its Twitter account, after a group of journalists were called as witnesses and now they want to prosecute them. This refers to the Specialized Prosecution Unit Against Corruption Networks (Uferco) who summoned a number of journalists as witnesses to investigate a case […]
"Journalists and community police in the town of Tula, in Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, were caught in a crossfire while they were holding a press conference on June 21st. According to Pulso Informativo Guerrero, members of the Regional Coordinator of Community Police were informing the news media about attacks by the criminal group Los Ardillos […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned on June 20th the confiscation of the Nicaraguan news outlet Trinchera de la Noticia. It pointed out that this is the fourth news media outlet officially shut down in that country as a result of 'hostile actions by the Nicaraguan government.' IAPA, based in Miami, emphasized that this […]
"A group of demonstrators outside the Montebello market, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, attacked a team of journalists from the newspaper El Universo. They forced them to leave while covering a protest that had gathered some 300 people. After aggressions and threats, the team had to leave and the photographer was asked to erase the images he […]
“With the impacts of environmental degradation becoming more acute around the globe, the world needs journalists reporting from Nature’s frontline to provide accurate and actionable information. This is especially the case across the tropics, which are disproportionately bearing the brunt of climate change, biodiversity loss, and threats against Indigenous peoples and local communities. […] To […]
"For the Dominican Society of Newspapers (SDD, by its Spanish acronym), the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) and the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) it is 'striking and dangerous' that various laws seek to consistently affect freedom of expression and the practice of journalism in the Dominican Republic. Persio Maldonado, director of El Nuevo […]
"Argentinian journalist George Chaya, a prominent critic of the Hezbollah leadership, has received a handwritten note warning him that the Iran-backed Shiite terrorist organization might try to kill him. Chaya is an expert on global terrorism and writes a Spanish-language column for the site Infobae. [...] The prevailing assessment is that either Israel or the […]
“On June 9, São Paulo state Sixth Civil Court Judge Fabio Coimbra Junqueira ruled that Dal Piva’s 2021 publication of a threatening message sent to her by Frederick Wassef, President Jair Bolsonaro’s personal lawyer, was ‘unauthorized,’ and ordered her to pay Wassef 10,000 reals (about US $2,000) in damages, according to news reports, a statement by the Brazilian Association […]
"68.1% of the murders of journalists are dismissed by the Special Prosecutor's Office for Attention to Crimes Committed against Freedom of Expression (Feadle) [of Mexico], because in its investigations it did not find any relation with the news media work. This federal agency was created on July 5, 2010. Since then and until April 30, […]
"Forensic analysis confirmed on Sat. June 18, that the second body found on Wed. June 15 in the Amazon is that of Bruno Pereira, a 41-year-old father of three children. The day before, British journalist Dom Phillips, 57, a contributor to The Guardian newspaper who had been living in Brazil for 15 years, was identified. […]