“In the last three days, journalist [Mary Karla Ares from ICLEP] has been subjected to intense interrogation every five and ten minutes throughout the night with every intention of torturing her, preventing her from sleeping. 'Mary Karla is being subjected to psychological torture, they told me that they take her out every five minutes, every […]
“The SJPMRJ (Union of Professional Journalists of the Municipality of Rio, for its acronym in Portuguese) and Fenaj (National Federation of Journalists - of Brazil) repudiated the attacks on CNN reporter Pedro Duran during coverage of the demonstration promoted yesterday morning [May 23] in Rio de Janeiro by President Jair Bolsonaro. The reporter was prevented […]
"On May 12, newly elected members of Guatemala’s Constitutional Court overturned a March 2020 ruling by the court’s former members that had halted the implementation of the so-called 'NGO Law,' a set of amendments to the country’s laws covering non-governmental organizations, according to Reuters. The amendments, which will go into force if signed by President […]
"Since last week, lawyer and researcher Alan Kardec Cabral Junior and reporter Thalys Alcântara, from newspaper O Popular, in Goiás, have been facing attacks by groups linked to the Association of Military Police Officers and Goiás Military Fire Brigade (ASSOF -Goiás). The motive is the publication of the article 'Only one in 200 deaths by […]
"Desde a última semana, o advogado e pesquisador Alan Kardec Cabral Junior e o repórter Thalys Alcântara, do jornal O Popular, de Goiás, vêm enfrentando ataques de grupos ligados à Associação dos Oficiais da Polícia Militar e Corpo de Bombeiros Militar de Goiás (ASSOF-Goiás). O motivo foi a publicação da reportagem 'Só uma em 200 […]
“The organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI, for its acronym in Spanish) rejected the accusations of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador about its alleged links with political parties or intervention in electoral campaigns. [...] This Wednesday [May 19], López Obrador again accused MCCI of receiving foreign money to intervene in Mexican politics, in favor […]
"The Nicaraguan Police carried out this Thursday [May 20] a new raid against the magazine Confidencial, a media outlet critical of the Daniel Ortega regime and led by journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro. Several journalists were repressed or detained while covering the raid. [...] Chamorro, the journalist, has denounced in a radio program that at the […]
"The organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its acronym in French) launched on Tuesday [May 18] the certificate of the Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) to fight against disinformation and offer a certificate to media considered 'trustworthy' after a verification process. The initiative aims to achieve a healthier information system. To achieve this, indicators of reliability […]
"Mexican journalist Marcela Turati won the 2021 Javier Valdez Cárdenas Journalism Award convened by Penguin Random House, the publishing firm announced this Saturday in a statement. The award considers the publication of a book with an investigation carried out by Turati about the massacres of San Fernando, in the northern state of Tamaulipas, where in […]
"The Supreme Court of Justice confirmed the sentence of 47 years, 2 months and 6 days in prison against Juan Camilo Ortiz, as the author of the murder of journalist Flor Alba Núñez Vargas, which occurred at noon on Sept. 10, 2015 at the door of the station where she worked, in the municipality of […]