"Haitian journalist, Blondine Tanis, was released on Sunday night [July 30], following the payment of a ransom to the individuals who kidnapped her. After her release, Tanis was taken to a hospital. She was beaten by her captors to force her relatives to pay, according to local media. The co-host of the program "Tribune Matinale […]
"Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín completed one year in prison this Saturday [July 29] since his arrest on July 29, 2022, only five days after voicing strong criticism of corruption allegations against the government of president Alejandro Giammattei. 'It has been an extremely difficult and complicated year, but we know that my father is […]
"Haitian law enforcement must thoroughly investigate the July 23 arson attack on independent local station Radio Antarctique and ensure that journalists can work without fear of reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. Around 6 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, about 50 heavily armed men with assault-style rifles attacked the town of Liancourt in […]
"Sports journalist Max Martínez narrowly escaped death after being attacked with a knife by a group of scarlet fans [of the América de Cali team] who mistook him for a Nacional team fan. The journalist, who works for the radio program El Corrillo de Mao, was wounded near the neck and in the back." […]
"Independent journalist Gabriela Ramos Carbajal was wounded with five pellets fired by the police in the face and body during the recent protest on Abancay Avenue, in downtown Lima [Peru]. In view of this fact, the Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation against the Peruvian National Police [PNP] for the alleged crime of minor injuries […]
"The University Observatory of Human Rights of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas [in El Salvador] (OUDH, by its Spanish acronym) shared its annual report on freedom of the press and access to public information for the year 2022. It warns of patterns of attacks on journalists and setbacks in the exercise of journalism, access […]
"The [Bolivian] National Press Association (ANP, by its Spanish acronym) denounced that the journalist of the newspaper El Deber, Guider Arancibia [Guillén], was threatened after publishing a news item about the capture of a cocaine shipment transported in a light aircraft that fell in Argentina, and demanded governmental protection for the reporter. [...] Arancibia Guillén […]
"After several threats of attacks against their physical and personal integrity, journalists Mónica Velásquez and Andersson Boscán left Ecuador for a safe country. Fundamedios had access to a letter written by the journalists detailing the different threats to which they have been exposed. According to them, since October 2021 they received a first threat from […]
Article 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP), Freedom House, Asociación por la Democracia y los Derechos Humanos de Honduras and Reporteros de Investigación denounced and demanded that Honduran authorities investigate attacks on journalists and human rights defenders that have been taking place in recent months. According to the organizations, […]
"In Tuluá, Colombia, seven journalists were 'threatened and pressured to publish information about the criminal group 'Los Cancerberos,'` according to the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, for its Spanish acronym) on its Twitter account. Likewise, the entity points out that 'this aggravates the situation of the press covering matters of public interest in the municipality […]
"Opposition politicians and non-governmental organizations in Venezuela called this Sunday [July 23] for the release of Roland Carreño, a journalist who worked in the team of former interim president Juan Guaidó and who completed this weekend 1,000 days in prison since he was arrested for allegedly 'promoting violent actions.' 'Roland [Carreño] is innocent and was […]
"In 2022, the year of one of the toughest elections in Brazil, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by its Portuguese acronym) registered 557 cases of aggression against press members, 26% involving some type – more or less explicit – of gender violence. Of this group, 5% were categorized as episodes of sexual violence, with […]