"On Feb. 7, two journalists from [the Mexican state of] Chiapas, Verónica Vega Cisneros, host of Televisa Chiapas, and Daniela Grajales, host of TV Azteca Chiapas, were assaulted by the same man while covering a story related to the death of a child in a private educational institution in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. [...] The man […]
"Suspected gangs have kidnapped another Haitian journalist as colleagues demanded his release, a government office announced Wednesday (Feb. 8). The journalist was identified by the Office of Citizen Protection as Jean Thony Lorthé, who works for Radio Vision 2000. Local media reported that Lorthé was headed to a funeral with two other people including his […]
"The Government of Nicaragua has surprised this Thursday with news of enormous repercussion. The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which exercises a policy of widespread repression in the Central American country, has released 222 of the 245 political prisoners in the country without notifying their families. Immediately, they have banished them in a […]
"Campaigns to raise awareness of society and public agencies - especially the security forces - about the serious situation of violence that affects press professionals in Brazil are among the measures announced by the National Secretary of Justice, Augusto Arruda Botelho, for the newly created Observatory of Violence Against Journalists and Communicators. Conceived by the […]
"The June 2022 murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on the Amazon’s Indigenous, drew the world’s attention to the risk runs by those who shed light on rights violations in the Brazilian Amazon. But press freedom is violated every day in this region, and in a variety of ways […]
"The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, by its Spanish acronym) denounced this Tues. Feb. 7 on its social networks that agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) 'arbitrarily' held a journalist for 'at least an hour.' APES noted that police officers 'held a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Inter Diario and Korean Broadcasting […]
"A total of 20 cases of violence against journalists and social communicators, including one murder, were registered in the year 2022, in addition to 3 cases of violence against the media, according to data collected by the Roundtable for the Safety of Journalists of Paraguay (MSP, by its Spanish acronym). Last year, Paraguay added one […]
"The Gabo Foundation, in alliance with Bancolombia and Sura Groups and their affiliates in Latin America, opened up the eleventh call for submissions to the Gabo Journalism Awards. This year the awards have the slogan 'Journalism Lives On.' The works must have been originally published in Spanish or Portuguese between Jun. 7, 2022 and Mar. […]
"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by its Portuguese acronym) and other national and international organizations for press freedom defense have prepared a dossier with reports on the serious situation of insecurity for journalistic coverage in Brazil. This situation was aggravated by the coup movements that, on Jan. 8, organized encampments in barracks and […]
"The National Academy of Journalism expressed this Thurs. (Feb. 3) its 'absolute rejection' to 'any kind of escrache' against people in public life by echoing the situation of TN journalist Marina Abiuso, who closed her Twitter account. [...] Abiuso, journalist and gender editor of TN channel, denounced suffering harassment in her social media that led […]
"Peruvian authorities must investigate the recent harassment of journalist Manuel Calloquispe, ensure his safety, and take steps to protect members of the press covering political protests, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday [Feb. 3]. On Jan. 27, a group of about 200 protesters surrounded Calloquispe’s home in the eastern town of Puerto Maldonado and […]
"Journalist Paola Ugaz was assaulted last Sat., Feb. 4, by members of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) while covering another day of protests in downtown Lima. She told La República newspaper that other press members were also beaten by the agents, despite identifying themselves as journalists. 'This police is not the police of a democratic […]