"Journalist Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, from the digital media outlet Delibera.org, has been detained for more than 100 days, with kidney problems and without adequate medical assistance, awaiting trial in the Combinado del Este Penitentiary center in Havana since June 15, 2021. Despite the fact that his wife requested a habeas corpus appeal on June […]
“Mercedes Fernández Merubia, a journalist for the ERBOL news agency and the Santa Cruz radio station, suffered attacks and was prevented from completing her reporting work on Oct. 1 when she was interviewing one of the two groups of Indigenous people who arrived in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, after holding […]
"This Wednesday [Sept. 28] Nicaraguan authorities prevented Mauricio Madrigal, news director of Channel 10, from leaving the country. He said he was heading to Miami for a work meeting. Madrigal, who went to the public prosecutor on June 29 for a money laundering case for which the NGO Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is being […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) rejects the order of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) of Guatemala to investigate the newspaper elPeriódico for publishing a document on alleged acts of corruption in public administration. The organization claims the CSJ must investigate the integrity of the complaint, not the whistleblowers. On September 27, the CSJ […]
"[The ruling party] Peru Libre issued a statement on Sunday [Sept. 26] opposing that President Pedro Castillo sign the declarations of Chapultepec and Salta, which guarantee freedom of expression and of the press. On Sept. 9, it was reported that the Peruvian Press Council (CPP) invited the president to sign both commitments. In a meeting […]
“On Saturday, Sept. 18, Gloria Ruíz, reporter and director of the digital media outlet CuatroP Noticias, was the victim of news blocking. Likewise, freelance journalist Ángel Maldonado was the victim of injuries and damage to work equipment by elements of the Coahuila Public Security Secretariat, called the Coahuila Civil Police (PCC), in Ciudad Acuña. The […]
“Puno journalist Liubomir Fernández denounced that the Popular Action congressman, Jorge Luis Flores Ancachi, tried to bribe him with a 100-soles bill [about US $ 25] to stop interviewing his colleague from the party and also elected by Puno, Carlos Cevallos. 'He gave me a handshake and he was passing me 100 soles and in […]
"On Sept. 14, police officers and agents from the local attorney general’s office raided [Fausto] Chimbolema’s office in the central Ecuadorian town of Tena and confiscated his laptop, memory cards, and mobile phone, according to the journalist, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app, and a statement by the Ecuadorian free press organization Fundamedios. Chimbolema […]
"The Center for Archives and Access to Public Information (CAinfo) [in Uruguay] expresses concern about a series of lawsuits against journalists filed in recent weeks, which threaten freedom of expression and the free flow of information. Most of the complaints filed, or publicly announced, between the months of July, August and September refer to criminal […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed concern about the reprisals that a high official of the government of El Salvador would take against two journalists for using anonymous official sources in a report. On his Twitter account, President Nayib Bukele's lawyer and legal advisor, Javier Argueta, threatened to initiate legal proceedings against journalists Karen […]
"The bill that declares of 'public necessity and national interest the fair and equitable distribution of the electromagnetic and radioelectric spectrum in radio, television and other media,' proposed by Congressman Abel Reyes, from Peru Libre, which has the digital signature of Waldemar Cerrón, spokesman for that party, and of Francis Paredes Castro, aims to set […]
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold its 182nd Period of Sessions online between the 6th and 17th of December, 2021. The adoption of the virtual format aims to fulfill the IACHR mandates and functions in the face of the seriousness of the situation currently affecting the health of thousands of people in […]