"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by it's Portuguese acronym) presented before the Federal Supreme Court, on Dec. 17, 2021, a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI) requesting greater protection in cases of judicial harassment against journalists, a coordinated practice of a spray of trials against the same target, in order to intimidate journalists. The […]
"The Attorney General of the Venezuelan dictatorship reported on Dec. 20 that two officials of the Special Actions Forces (FAES, by its Spanish acronym) --whose dissolution has been requested by the UN-- were convicted for the murder of two journalists from a television channel in the northwestern state of Zulia: Víctor Manuel Torres and Andrés […]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court HR) published a ruling dated Oct. 6, 2021 in the case of the Maya Kaqchikel Indigenous Peoples of Sumpango et al v. Guatemala. The Inter-American Court found the State of Guatemala responsible for violating the rights to freedom of expression, equality before the law, and the right […]
The journalist for the state radio station Patria Nueva, Jeruslava Ojeda, suffered verbal and physical attacks while covering an incident at the doors of the Departmental Chamber of Small-Scale Industry [in Santa Cruz]. The National Press Association (ANP), as it has in all cases of aggression against journalists, denounced the violence against this communicator. According […]
The El Salvador authorities, including President Nayib Bukele, are blocking people on social media who criticize the government, Human Rights Watch said Dec. 16th. This violates their rights to free speech and access to information, and to participate in the conduct of public affairs. Human Rights Watch identified 91 blocked accounts, the vast majority on Twitter, including […]
"The NGO Espacio Público documented 103 violations of freedom of expression [in November]. Most of the cases had to do with intimidation of journalists, censorship and administrative restrictions that hindered access to information. This number raised the total to 453 violations reported to the organization until Nov. 30. In 44% of the cases, journalists were […]
"(Dec. 14, 2021) At the crossroads of protests of Jalisco journalists against Governor Enrique Alfaro, the University of Guadalajara has created the Observatory on Freedom of Expression and Violence against Journalists. The rector of the Guadalajara University (UdeG, by its acronym in Spanish), Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí, said it is the university's to defend and support […]
"The Attorney General's Office of Colombia" accused the trainee prison guard of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) Marco Javier Morantes Pico as allegedly responsible for the crime of simple aggravated kidnapping, in relation to the violent acts against the journalist." Bedoya, the now editor of special issues for the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo, […]
"Lydia Cacho knows she cannot return to her native country, Mexico. She knows about the existence of hitmen hired to assassinate her. She has been in Spain since December 2019. Even so, unable to see her family, exiled, she is happy. She is grateful to be able to walk around the street, live in a […]
"A federal judge sentenced Martín Eduardo L., alias 'El Tacones,' one of the alleged murderers of journalist Israel Vázquez Rangel in Salamanca, Guanajuato, to 20 years in prison. The ruling recognized the journalistic quality of the victim and that the murder was carried out with the purpose of limiting his freedom of expression," reported the […]
"The Spanish newspaper El País announced on Dec. 14 the end of publishing in Portuguese. This edition had been published in Brazil since 2013. In a website statement, the newspaper stated that, despite the good audience numbers and those of digital subscribers, the news outlet "did not achieve economic sustainability, which led to the decision to […]
"On Dec. 1, Jairo Roque Gómez, editor of the independent Diario Hechicera newspaper in the northern city of Tumbes, published a story about possible irregularities in the contract process to build a public school in Contralmirante Villar, a nearby township, according to Peru’s National Journalists Association and Roque who spoke to CPJ via messaging app. […]