“The cassation (appeal) hearing for the case of Jose Rubén Zamora was postponed to Sept. 23, 2025 by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. Until that date, the resolution of an Appeals Chamber that annulled the conviction against Zamora, due to allegations of money laundering presented by the public prosecutor's office, would […]
“The house of Silvia Peraza Azueta, journalist and manager of the online news portal Código Rojo Quintana Roo, was shot at after she filed a report about threats with the state attorney general. At 12:32 a.m. on Tuesday, September 24, the journalist posted a message on the portal’s Facebook page, reporting the attack on her […]
“The Salvadoran Association of Journalists, or APES for its initials in Spanish, expresses its concern and demands that the government be held accountable for the revelations made in a news investigation, which finds that high-ranking state officials had agreed to establish a center to spy on journalists. The surveillance specifically targets Jorge Beltrán Luna from […]
“Bolivia has seen some 82 cases of press freedom violations between January and September 2024, including a recent aggression suffered by journalists covering the march of sectors supporting former president Evo Morales, as denounced on Sept. 19 by the Observatory of Human Rights Defenders of the UNITAS Network. Of the total number, the 'most frequent' […]
“The prosecutor's office accused Freisman Yesid Toro Meléndez, a journalist from the city of Cali in Colombia, of having simulated threats against his life to maintain the security benefits granted by the National Protection Unit. The events occurred on Sept. 28, 2014, when, according to the investigating entity, the communicator created an email from which […]
Following a court decision as part of the lawsuits brought against her by the Peruvian Attorney General's Office, the secrecy of Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz's communications was lifted, according to the Spanish newspaper ABC, of which Ugaz is a correspondent in Lima. The Peruvian court requested from Ugaz's telephone operator all the records of her […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced the winners of the 2024 International Press Freedom Award, including Guatemalan journalist Quimy de León, co-founder of the news agency specializing in environmental and human rights issues Prensa Comunitaria. The award is given to journalists who have "withstood extraordinary challenges to continue reporting on their communities." De León's […]
"Venezuelan journalist Luis Gonzalo Pérez announced this Thursday, September 19, that he left the country in forced exile, after spending two months in hiding due to threats from Nicolás Maduro's government following the July 28 presidential elections. In a video shared on his social media, the journalist said he and his family left the country, […]
"UNESCO and the United States of America have signed an agreement on the funding of a wide-ranging project for the safety of journalists and freedom of expression. The project will be carried out on the Global level with a focus on four regions; Africa, the Arab States, Latin America and the Caribbean and Eastern Europe […]
The Costa Rican Association of Journalists (Colper) has filed an appeal denouncing attacks by the country’s president, Rodrigo Chaves, against journalists, urging the court to reaffirm the protection of press freedom and the right to information. Colper announced this Wednesday that the appeal was submitted on September 13, and the Constitutional Court accepted it for […]
Two journalists were assaulted during protests involving followers of former president Evo Morales and current president Luis Arce on Tuesday, September 17. The protests escalated into clashes in the community of Vila Vila. A reporter from Cadena A in Oruro was brutally beaten, while another from SEO TV was forced to cut his live broadcast, […]
“'The Paraguayan Journalists Union (SPP, for its acronym in Spanish) strongly repudiates the use of private data of journalists by sectors linked to the ruling party, in order to disqualify and intimidate them,' the organization said in a statement issued this Tuesday [Sept. 17 ]. In particular, it referred to the 'leak of information obtained […]