“In the last 48 hours, agents of the State Security of the Ministry of the Interior of Cuba (Minint), a feared apparatus that acts as political police of the communist regime of Havana, unleashed a wave of arrests of opponents and human rights activists, sources of Cuban dissidence denounced today. The arrests were recorded as […]
"Federal prosecutor Ailton Benedito, former secretary of Human Rights and Collective Defense of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), announced on his social networks that he is suing the fact-checking agency Aos Fatos. Ailton, who declares himself to be conservative and is aligned with Bolsonaro, was pointed out by the fact-checking site as one of the […]
"Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) responded, through a statement, that the organization does not operate in secrecy and that its financing comes from donations that are reported to the tax authorities. The foregoing, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned in his morning press conference that financial support for the organization, which he said […]
“The special commission that carried out the investigation of the harassment of journalists concluded, after 15 working meetings and having listened to 26 communicators and entities, that some independent media and journalists are being harassed by the Government, which makes use of public resources to attack and threaten. [...] The report indicates that both the […]
"A score of Guatemalan journalists spoke out this Tuesday in front of the public prosecutor's office against the criminalization and censorship of their profession, such as the criminal prosecution of their Indigenous K'iche' colleague Anastasia Mejía Tiriquiz. [...] Last Wednesday, a Guatemalan judge in the north of the country processed Indigenous journalist Anastasia Mejía Tiriquiz […]
"The IFEX-ALC network condemns the arbitrary detention of journalists Miriam Grizel and Cesario Padilla, members of the team at the Committee for Freedom of Expression (C-Libre) that occurred on Nov. 2 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and calls on national authorities to respect and guarantee the right to freedom of expression and the work of journalists and […]
"On October 27, police officers in the southern Peruvian city of Ica raided the Cadena Sur TV station as well as Radio Sistema and Radio La Mega, all three of which are privately owned, following a complaint by Mónica Guillén, the wife of Ica state governor Javier Gallegos, according to a statement by the Lima-based Institute for Press and Society (IPYS)." […]
"Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces, a CubaNet journalist and former political prisoner, denounced that the island's regime blocked him from the Internet, preventing him from accessing personal work media such as email and the Nauta Hogar service. Quiñones explained that the difficulties in connecting to the network of networks began in mid-September, a few days […]
"This Tuesday, the Nicaraguan National Assembly approved the controversial Special Law on Cybercrimes, which intends to investigate and punish 'crimes committed by information and communication technology media,' something that the country's opposition and civil society organizations have described as an attempt to restrict the freedom of expression of the press and to silence sectors critical […]
"The Secretariat of the Civil Service, Irma Eréndira Sandoval, reported that there is an ongoing investigation against the director of the Mexican State News Agency (Notimex), Sanjuana Martínez, for alleged attacks or cyberbullying in social networks against Notimex journalists and workers. During her appearance in the Senate of the Republic, the head of the SFP […]