"For more than a decade, Marcela Turati has painstakingly documented disappearances and mass graves in Mexico, cementing her reputation as one of the country’s foremost investigative reporters. But even with her knowledge of human rights abuses and corruption, she was shocked to learn that she has been under investigation by Mexican federal authorities for years. […]
"On Jan. 3, 2022, journalist Guillermo Bazán, a reporter for "Ke Buena Virú" was struck by Roger Ubillús, manager of the Municipality of Virú, a city in the La Libertad region, in northern Peru. [...] Faced with the insistent demands of the reporter, the municipal manager reacted by giving him a strong blow to the […]
"Julio Chiapetta, former head of Sports for the newspaper Clarín, was declared in absentia for a lawsuit filed against him by the president of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez and a judge from the Single Sentencing Court, Inés Galarza, ordered his capture. The journalist said that he had not been duly notified. Argentine trade associations and the […]
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold its 183rd Regular Period of Sessions from March 7 to 18. The format for holding the Period of Sessions will be implemented in response to the fulfillment of its mandates and functions given the seriousness of the situation that the region and the world are going […]
"At around 8:40 p.m. on Dec. 20, a group of unidentified people gathered at the newspaper’s headquarters in the city of Trelew, in the southern province of Chubut, and threw rocks and firebombs into the building, breaking windows and setting several fires, according to news reports and El Chubut politics section chief Rubén Darío Giménez, […]
"The National Telecommunications Commission of Venezuela (Conatel, by its Spanish acronym) shut down the Kalor 101.9 FM station, based in Acarigua, in the state of Portuguesa, on Dec. 28. The news outlet was run by the journalist and recently-elected opposition mayor, Carlos Barrios. [...] On Dec. 27, the regulatory body closed the Astro 97.7 FM […]
"The governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, announced on Dec. 27 that he had filed lawsuits against the journalist and researcher Ricardo Ravelo Galó, of the SinEmbargo news outlet, for alleged moral damage. [...] The governor's reaction comes after the journalist published two articles on Dec. 17 and 24part of a journalistic […]
At least 10 media professionals have been assassinated in the region near the border between Brazil and Paraguay in the last 10 years. Their deaths are largely related to organized crime. However, sometimes crimes are committed in retaliation for political disagreements, unrelated to criminal groups. The most recent case was that of Brazilian Léo Veras, […]
"In the ruling, notified today [Dec.21, 2021], relapsed in the Case of Palacio Urrutia et al. v. Ecuador, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights declared the international responsibility of the State of Ecuador for the violation of the rights to freedom of expression, the principle of legality, movement and residence, job stability, judicial guarantees and […]
"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 […]