"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. […]
"On Dec. 7, at about 8:30 p.m., two unidentified men with their faces covered broke into Mabel Páez’s home in the western province of Artemisa and attacked her, according to news reports and Normando Hernández, general manager of the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP), who spoke to CPJ via messaging […]
"A TV Bahía team, affiliated with TV Globo, was attacked by security guards and supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) this Sunday morning, Dec. 12, in Itamaraju. The President visited the area after heavy rains caused damage to the south of Bahia. According to TV Globo, reporter Camila Marinho and cameraman Cleriston Santana were waiting […]
“The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued, on Dec. 8, 2021, Resolution 101/21, granting precautionary measures in favor of María Lilly Delgado Talavera, after considering that she is in serious and urgent situational risk of irreparable damage to her rights in Nicaragua. According to the requestors, as a result of her journalistic work in […]
“Noticias Uno rejected in its Dec. 8 broadcast the announcement by the Prosecutor's Office that it would inspect its files for the broadcast of October 19, 2013, the date on which Noticias Uno revealed information related to the board of directors of the Aqueduct and Sewerage Company of Bogotá at that time This would serve […]
"In a historical event, the first of its kind to be reached in Mexico in the case of a disappeared journalist, this Wednesday [Dec. 9] in Empalme, Sonora will be the signing of the Friendly Settlement Agreement and Public Act of Acknowledgement of Responsibility, by the Mexican State to the indirect victims of the disappearance […]
"With 67 votes against and 51 votes in favor, the House defended an article that could result in the restriction of journalistic work and in the control of the actions of public officials. The controversial point is in the project that seeks to 'adopt measures in matters of transparency, prevention and fight against corruption.' The […]
“Alexander Gálvez, the Haitian correspondent who was abducted by gangs in Haiti, was released this Monday [Dec. 6] after being deprived of his liberty for nine days. As reported by the Haitian media outlet Radio Télé Métronome, the abduction of the reporter from Grupo de Medios Telemicro had been perpetrated by the criminal gang ‘400 […]
"The Júri Court, in Curitiba, Brazil, sentenced hitman Flavio Acosta Riveros to 36 years in prison for the murder of Paraguayan journalist Pablo Medina and his assistant Antonia Almada, which took place in 2014. (...) Pablo Medina and his assistant were ambushed and killed on Oct. 16, 2017, in Villa Ygatimí, Canindeyú department in Paraguay. […]
"Facebook has begun to expand its Facebook Protect security program globally, which has led some users of the social network to see a notification urging their activation to continue using the account. The technology company that presented a couple ago years ago Facebook Protect, a security program designed to protect risk groups such as journalists, […]