"Journalists from the television stations Columbia, Repretel and Teletica were verbally and physically attacked on Aug. 25 while they covered a protest held by the Movimiento Rescate Nacional against the sanitary measure to contain the propagation of COVID-19, in San Jose, Costa Rica. The reporter Alejandro Arley, of Noticias Columbia, spoke about his experience on […]
“The special commission that investigates the harassment of journalists and the media received representatives from El Faro and Mariana Belloso from La Prensa Gráfica. Specifically, the founder and director of the digital newspaper El Faro, Carlos Armando Dada, revealed to the deputies who are investigating the harassment of journalists and the media, that behind the […]
"Organizations and human rights defenders in Guatemala issued an alert this Wednesday about the detention of an indigenous journalist accused of 'sedition' in the north of the country and for an attack on two other female communicators in another incident that occurred in the west of the territory." Read the original article (in Spanish)
"Judge Deyanira Traña, in charge of the Bluefields Local Criminal Court, declared the journalist and editor-in-chief of Radio La Costeñísima, Kalúa Salazar, 'guilty' this Wednesday morning, Sept. 23, for the crime of calumnia (defamation), after publishing the report: 'Corruption is uncovered in the Mayor's Office of the El Rama municipality'... Salazar, upon leaving the Bluefields […]
"The Argentine Journalism Forum expresses its repudiation and concern over the arrest of the journalist Franco Cervera of FM 102.5 Radio Estación, from San Francisco, Córdoba. This Monday, the 21st, he was detained while he was reporting in front of the Border Police Station, Santa Fé, where a group of neighbors asked for the release […]
"Trafficker Elias Pereira da Silva, known as Elias Maluco, was found dead on Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 22) at the Catanduvas Federal Penitentiary, in western Paraná, Brazil, according to information from the Penitentiary Department (Depen). According to Depen, the Federal Police was called in to conduct an investigation on the spot. The body will be taken […]
"El ESMAD le lanzó una bomba aturdidora a Fabián Yañez, periodista de Revista Semana, mientras hacía cubrimiento a las manifestaciones del Paro Nacional del 21 de septiembre en la Plaza de Bolivar en Bogotá...Como quedó captado en video, Yañez le reclamó a la policía el haberle disparado sin justificación mientras se disponía hacer su trabajo […]
"ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron) threw a stun grenade at Fabián Yañez, a journalist with Revista Semana, while he was covering the demonstrations of the National Strike on Sept. 21 in Plaza de Bolivar in Bogotá... As captured on video, Yañez complained to the police for having shot him without justification while he was preparing to […]
“Griselda Triana presents the call for the Javier Valdez Cárdenas award for Mexican and foreign journalists living in the country, which will be open until February 2021. Journalists are invited to send their investigative projects related to organized crime, political corruption, victims of violence, abuse of power, questionable behavior of the armed forces and social […]
“With deep scars from the deaths of 27 colleagues and six more disappeared in 15 years, journalists from the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz today face new threats to their person and the right to inform, as reflected in the murder and beheading of Julio Valdivia. Coverage of intense shootings is slowly being left behind. […]
“This Wednesday morning, the FM Horizonte radio studio in the city of Villa Río Bermejito, in the province of Chaco, was the scene of a very violent situation. At around 11 am, journalist Luis Mancini was conducting his program live when suddenly two men, one of them a city official, invaded the place and gave […]
"A judge ordered the arrest of renowned journalist Gonzalo Guillen who earlier this year published evidence that Colombia’s ruling party conspired with a drug trafficking organization to rig to the 2018 elections. The Bogota judge ordered the arrest, claiming Guillen was in contempt of court was not adequately rectifying the claim that a man called Carlos Barrosa from […]