"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has published the calendar of public hearings that will take place as part of the 183rd Period of Sessions, to be held in person from March 6–10, 2023, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in the United States. During the period of sessions, several promotional events […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) denounced the continued abuse of defamation lawsuits against Panamanian media and journalists and the preventive seizure of their assets as mechanisms of intimidation and gagging to curb critical journalism. The IAPA endorsed the recent expressions of its regional vice-presidency in Panama, the National Council of Journalists (CNP, by its […]
"In the past 20 years, at least 285 radio stations have been closed in Venezuela under orders of the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel, by its Spanish acronym). Conatel alleges, according to those affected, improper administrative decisions, while defenders of freedom of expression describe those actions as arbitrary. Carlos Correa, director of the NGO Espacio Público, […]
"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 […]
"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 […]
"Peruvian journalist Carlos Cornejo denounced this Tues. (Jan. 31) that the state channel TV Peru 'had sent him home,' after having said that the death of anti-government demonstrator Víctor Santisteban in Lima this Saturday (Jan. 28) was a murder at the hands of the police. Cornejo said in his program broadcasted by TV Peru that, […]
"Journalist Rogério Florentino, from Cuiabá (capital of the state of Mato Grosso), is being targeted by abusive legal actions intended to harm the work of the press. Florentino is facing a criminal complaint filed by businessman Pedro Eugenio Gomes Procópio da Silva, owner of two mining companies operating in the city, Ofir Intermediações de Cuiabá […]
"This Tues. [Jan. 31], a Guatemalan court charged renowned journalist and main opponent of President Alejandro Giammattei, José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, for alleged obstruction of justice. This brings to two the number of criminal proceedings opened against the founder of El Periódico. Zamora Marroquín is also accused of money laundering, for which he has been […]
"The Constitutional Court [of Colombia] has just denied a tutela [legal remedy in the Colombian system for guaranteeing fundamental rights] filed by filmmaker Ciro Guerra against journalists Catalina Ruiz-Navarro and Matilde de los Milagros. Said journalists published in June 2020 in the digital news site Volcanicas eight allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Guerra […]
"Chilean authorities should not contest journalist Felipe Soto Cortés’ appeal of a recent criminal defamation conviction and should stop using criminal defamation laws against members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday [Jan. 27]. On Jan. 11, a criminal court judge in the southern city of Concepción convicted Soto, editor of the […]