"The Peruvian Congress rejected this Thursday [June 15] to approve, in a second vote, a bill proposing to raise the penalties for the crime of defamation. The bill has been described by national and international journalistic organizations as a 'gag law' that sought to intimidate the press and that had received the green light in […]
“All over the world, journalists who are threatened or endangered in connection with their work are forced to flee abroad in search of refuge. Based on data provided by RSF’s Assistance Desk and information gathered during the past five years by RSF’s bureaux, the exile journalists map shows that this is a global phenomenon. Each […]
"The Supreme Court [of Chile] accepted a writ of amparo filed by the former minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Juan Antonio Poblete, and ordered his immediate release, in the context of the so-called Operation Topographer [a judicial case arising from the investigation made by journalist Mauricio Weibel inside the Army, following denunciations by […]
"A Guatemalan court ruled this Monday [June 19] that government-critical journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín must not pay the fine the State had requested, after being convicted in an alleged money laundering case. Judge Oly González ruled that 'it's not legitimate' for Zamora Marroquín to pay a fine as a dignified reparation to the State […]
"'Silence is not an option,' said Salvadoran Óscar Martínez at the Deutsche Welle (DW) Global Media Forum in Bonn [Germany] on Monday [June 19]. The Salvadoran investigative journalist received this year's DW Freedom of Expression Award for his courage and journalistic commitment. Born in 1983 in El Salvador, the renowned journalist is known throughout Latin […]
"José González, a journalist from the state of Guerrero, was shot at [on Thursday, June 15] a few minutes after leaving his home. As a result of this aggression, he suffered several wounds in his arms. As a measure to ask for help, he started broadcasting live on social media, where [he can be seen] […]
"A new report on attacks against the press in Colombia developed by the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, by its Spanish acronym), revealed a concerning assessment for journalists in the country. [...] In 2023, 58 threats against these professionals have been documented. The figures, which correspond to the period between Jan. 1 and May 31, […]
"In the Zero Impunity report this Tuesday [June 13], the undersecretary of Security and Citizen Protection [of Mexico], Luis Rodríguez Bucio, highlighted the 30-year prison sentence to Nicasio N, for the intentional homicide of journalist María Elena Ferral Hernández on March 30, 2020. During President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's morning conference, the former general commander […]
"A well-known Haitian journalist was kidnapped from her home and hours later was freed by one of the dangerous gangs operating in Port-au-Prince. Marie Lucie Bonhomme Opont, a journalist for Radio Vision 2000, was kidnapped at 3:00 a.m. on June 13 at her residence in the Tabarre neighborhood, northeast of the Haitian capital, by the […]
"Jurists and journalism defense entities qualified this Monday [June 12] as a restriction on press freedom the decision by the Rio Grande do Sul Court of Justice (TJ-RS, by its Portuguese acronym) to maintain censorship against [the agency] Aos Fatos at the request of Jornal da Cidade Online - a site that is being investigated […]
"The Gabo Foundation, an institution created by journalist and Nobel Prize in Literature Gabriel García Márquez, announced the 50 nominees for the eleventh edition of the Gabo Award, the most important journalism recognition in Spanish and Portuguese. The list of nominees is made up of 10 works in each of the five categories of the […]
"A Guatemalan court sentenced journalist José Rubén Zamora to six years in prison on Wednesday [June 14] for the crime of money laundering, which the editor of the newspaper elPeriódico has denied throughout his year-long trial. The court decided to acquit Zamora of the other two charges against him, which were blackmail and influence peddling, […]