"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued the Resolution 49/2022 on Sept. 29, 2022, by which it granted precautionary measures to Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro and his close family, after deeming that they are in a serious and urgent situation of risk of irreparable harm to their rights in Nicaragua. According to the petitioning […]
"In a debate promoted by the Brazilian TV network (SBT, by its Portuguese acronym) on Thurs. Sept. 29 where candidates for governor of Amazonas were present, the Senator and candidate Eduardo Braga (Brazilian Democratic Movement party or MDB), during the break, attacked journalist Márcia Dantas, of SBT Brasilia. During the break, the candidate demanded, shouting, […]
"Bolivian journalistic organizations unanimously rejected the request of the State Attorney General, Wilfredo Chávez, to lift source secrecy on the dissemination of a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) having to do with extrajudicial executions in the Las Américas hotel, in April 2009. The National Press Association (ANP, by its Spanish acronym), which […]
"A report by fact-checking agency Aos Fatos revealed that Secom [Special Secretariat for Social Communication of the Brazilian Presidency] paid 3.2 million reais [more than U.S. $590,000] to Brazil's public communication company [EBC], between January and May of this year, to broadcast events in which Bolsonaro disseminated at least 287 false and misleading statements. The […]
"The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) is excited to join with two local co-hosts for GIJC23: The Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University, and Föreningen Grävande Journalister, Sweden’s national association of investigative journalists. The conference venue is the world-class Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre. The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering […]
"The Gabo Foundation announced as the winner of the Gabo Award 2022 Recognition of Excellence Award the Mexican writer and journalist Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz, one of the most important voices of commentary and literature today, and an exceptional interpreter and narrator of the social, cultural and political realities of Mexico, Latin America and the […]
"For many years, Griselda, one of the first people to arrive at the street where Javier Valdez lay dead with 12 bullets in his body, cursed her husband: 'Why did he have to sign that article,' 'he was selfish and didn't think of us' or 'he didn't love us as much as he said...,' she […]
"The murder of Colombian journalist and humorist Jaime Garzón, perpetrated on Aug. 13, 1999, will reach the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which will study the violation of the fundamental rights to life, personal integrity and freedom of thought and expression involved in his homicide. In this regard, the IACHR admitted the petition that […]
"The Attorney General's Office of the State of Chiapas issued a report on Mon. Sept. 27, requesting the the public's help in figuring out the whereabouts of journalist Roberto Flores Mendoza, who has been missing since Sept. 20. The journalist was last seen in the neighborhood of La Pileta, in the municipality of Comitán de […]
"[...] Journalist Gabriel Pereyra (Radio Sarandí, VTV) denounced last weekend through his Twitter account that a police chief at the Intelligence Service had ordered for him to be monitored and followed. 'The third in command in the Police Intelligence Service ordered surveillance on my person. The president [of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou] and the minister […]
"A people's tribunal, which held a series of hearings on journalists killings, condemned Mexico, Sri Lanka and Syria on Sept. 19 and called for an 'independent and comprehensive' review of measures in place to protect the news media. Composed of international jurists, [the tribunal] heard testimonies during six months on the 2009 murder of Lasantha […]
"The Nicaraguan government took CNN en Español off the air Thurs. Sept. 22 at 12:07 a.m. ET, 10:07 p.m. Wed. in the Central American country. (...) CNN issued a statement on the off-airing of its signal in Nicaragua: 'At CNN en Español we believe in the vital role that freedom of the press plays in […]