"The administration of President Alejandro Giammattei in Guatemala has targeted the media through bellicose rhetoric and false accusations throughout the president’s first year in office, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said today. Investigations into threats, attacks, and two killings of journalists during this period have made little progress." Read original […]
"The new room is far from the plenary and makes it difficult for reporters to access parliamentarians. It is not the first time that a president of the Chamber has tried to occupy the space of the Press Committee, where journalists work. (...) To leave the presidency of the Chamber and reach the plenary, the […]
"The Federal Supreme Court (STF, for its acronym in Portuguese) denied on Thursday (Feb. 11) the recognition of the so-called 'right to be forgotten'- by which someone could claim that the media were prevented from disclosing information about a true fact considered harmful or painful." Read original article (in Portuguese)
“The overview of freedom of expression in [Colombia] is very worrying. This is demonstrated with figures and facts from a report by the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP). According to the leading organization in the fight to protect journalists in the country, threats, homicides, displacements and exile have worsened 'significantly' in the last four years, […]
“The journalist Juan Sarmiento was released this morning [Feb. 7] by the Judge of the Criminal Judicial Unit of Cantón Tena, Luis Eduardo Mendoza Chávez, after the prescription of a sentence against him. The journalist was sentenced by the Ecuadorian justice to 10 days in prison, to the payment of 25 percent of a Unified […]
"The Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting independent journalism and press freedom in Nicaragua, announced this Friday, Feb. 5, that it will cease operations because they will not be subject to the Foreign Agents Law approved by the Assembly last October. [...] The Ministry of the Interior (Migob, for its acronym […]
“Hours after the director of Radio Darío, businessman Aníbal Toruño, denounced –in an international news network– violations of press freedom in Nicaragua, police of President Daniel Ortega's regime raided his home for the third time in two months. The officers broke into the building at approximately ten in the morning, when there was no one […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) considered that the judicial harassment against the investigative journalist Dayanna Monroy in Ecuador is 'an act of intimidation that undermines press freedom.' The entity requested protection measures for the reporter of Teleamazonas channel 'in the face of the threats received' and that the facts 'be investigated and concrete measures […]
"La Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP) consideró que el acoso judicial de la que es víctima la periodista investigativa Dayanna Monroy es 'un acto de intimidación que socava la libertad de prensa'. La entidad solicitó medidas de protección para la periodista, del canal Teleamazonas, de Ecuador, 'ante las amenazas recibidas' y que 'se investigue y […]
“The non-governmental Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh, for its acronym in Spanish) denounced this Saturday [Jan. 30] the destruction of a headquarters of the digital media outlet Confidencial, critical of the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, in the context of the socio-political crisis that the Central American country has experienced since 2018. 'Knowing that […]