"The organization of Independent Journalists and Communicators of Nicaragua (PIN) denounced the sentence against sports journalist and political prisoner Miguel Mendoza Urbina, arguing that it lacks a legal basis and therefore must be annulled. The Judiciary sentenced the opposition member to nine years in prison and disqualified him from holding public office. In a statement […]
"Police officers from the 8th Precinct of the Department of Homicide and Protection of Persons (DHPP) arrested on Feb. 11, 2022 a man who was hiding in a house in the Pirambu neighborhood, in Fortaleza, Brazil, with 43 bags of marijuana. Thiago de Sousa Barros, 20, was named by a witness as the person who […]
"Brazilian businessman Luiz Eduardo Auricchio Bottura found an ingenious way to face the lawsuits of hundreds of customers to whom he sold his products and did not deliver. The daring engineer, trained in law, sued them all. He created a hell of a mess and came out on top. Bottura's trick, involved in thousands of […]
"The organization of Nicaraguan Independent Journalists and Communicators (PIN, by its Spanish acronym) denounced the sentence against the sports writer and political prisoner Miguel Mendoza Urbina, arguing that it lacks a legal basis and, therefore, it should be annulled. President Daniel Ortega's Judiciary sentenced the member of the opposition to nine years of prison and […]
"Cuban journalists Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho and Esteban Rodríguez received a humanitarian visa in Mexico, reported the National Migration Institute (INM) of the Ministry of the Interior on Friday, Feb. 18. […] Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho and Esteban Rodríguez were forced to leave Cuba in January, after the regime threatened Rodríguez with imprisonment and prosecution […]
"Each year, the International Center for Journalists honors outstanding colleagues with the ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award at our Tribute to Journalists. We are now seeking nominees whose pioneering coverage or media innovations have made an impact on the lives of people in their countries or regions. Candidates can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers […]
"In Tijuana, epicenter of the murders of journalists in recent weeks and one of the most complicated places to practice reporting in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shared the judicial process being followed on some of the crimes against journalists. [...] In most of the reported cases, the gunmen who fired the shots have […]
"Among the most important journalism conferences in Latin America, Abraji's International Congress of Investigative Journalism will have an unprecedented format in 2022. For the first time, the event will be hybrid: part online and part in person, in São Paulo, Brazil, with public participation. In Abraji 20th anniversary, the 17th Congress will invite leading professionals […]
"[...] EL PAÍS had access to the images that show the attack and the moments before the journalist [Roberto Toledo's] murder. The video is in the hands of the Prosecutor's Office and has been independently verified by this newspaper. In the recording, three hit men can be seen arriving on two motorcycles to a street […]
"The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) asked Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to "immediately suspend the attacks and insults" against journalists, warning that these attacks "from the pinnacle of power encourage violence against the press." Through a press release, the organization dedicated to the defense and promotion of press freedom also made public its rejection […]
"A news team was attacked in the early hours of Monday Feb. 14, in front of the 2nd Sectional Police Station in Campinas, in Southeaster Brazil. A cameraman from TV Thati, an affiliate of Rede Record in the metropolis, was run over on purpose while recording with the station's reporter. He had light bruises. The […]
"The journalist Ronald Moya asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CourtIDH) on Monday Feb. 14 to dictate a sentence against Costa Rican because of the application of a civil sanction by the courts against him, a colleague and the newspaper La Nación, for crimes against honor following the publication of a news article. 'I […]