“The former Minister of the Interior [of Peru], Daniel Urresti, will continue life behind bars. This Wednesday [Aug. 14], [the Transitory Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court] ratified his 12-year prison sentence for the murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos. [...] The Supreme Court determined that the crime 'constitutes, without the slightest doubt, a serious violation […]
“In addition to President Maduro’s ban on X (formerly Twitter) and the messaging app Signal, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) found at least 70 violations of press freedom committed by the authorities since the presidential elections on July 28, 2024. Both national and foreign journalists face a climate of hostility and repression, marked by arbitrary arrests, […]
“The Legal Defense Network, composed of the Nicaragua Nunca Más Human Rights Collective and the Independent Journalists and Communicators of Nicaragua (PCIN), presented its report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in its fourth cycle, highlighting the closure of 49 media outlets and at least 18,869 assaults on press freedom between 2019 and 2023. […] […]
"A court in Bogota ruled against the Colombian government for the police's detention and torture of journalist Manuel Santiago López, while he was covering the national strike of 2021 in Duitama, Boyacá. El Espectador reports. The state, the Ministry of Defense, and the National Police face an economic penalty. However, Santiago López told El Espectador […]
"On Tuesday [Aug. 13], the 25th anniversary of the murder of Colombian journalist and comedian Jaime Garzón, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) pays tribute to him and urges an end to impunity in the case, which has not brought to justice all those implicated in his murder. The IAPA remembers the popular journalist and […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asked Colombian authorities to investigate death threats against directors and team members of the Proclama del Cauca y Valle media group, based in the municipality of Santander de Quilichao, in the department of Cauca. The group reported in July 2024 that it had received death threats after reporting on […]
Mexican judges granted changes in preventive detention for former Mexican governor of Puebla, Mario Marín Torres, as well as Adolfo Karam Beltrán, former director of the judicial police. Both are accused of committing acts of torture against journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro and have been permitted to leave detention. Press freedom organization Article 19 said it […]
The Advisory Council of the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists of Mexico issued a release regarding the Aug. 4 murder of Alejandro Martínez Noguez, who was under police escort. The council demanded investigation into the security breach. "Although there are public statements from state authorities indicating that Martínez Noguez directly requested escorts […]
"'We denounce the illegal and arbitrary use of anti-terrorism laws in Venezuela, especially against journalists and photojournalists detained during the post-election protests in the country,' the [National Union of Press Workers] SNTP said in a statement posted on its social networks. Photojournalists Yousner Alvarado (Barinas, west) and Deisy Peña (Miranda, center), cameraman Paúl León (Trujillo, […]
“The highest number of violations against civil liberties in Cuba in July were related to access to digital space, amounting to 46 restrictions, according to the the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP, for its acronym in Spanish). [...] The 101 incidents recorded by the entity, whose main headquarters is in Miami, […]