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Violence Against Journalists

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Venezuelan journalist claims judge threatened to arrest her

"Journalist Sebastiana Barráez denounced that a judge threatened to arrest her for reporting on the case of the Venezuelan ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, who has filed a lawsuit for the custody of his children. In videos uploaded to her social media, the Venezuelan journalist pointed out that the threats come from Judge Jorge Luis Devenish […]

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Argentina: Journalist Griselda Blanco, who had received threats after denouncing alleged police abuses, found dead

"Journalist Griselda Blanco, who had revealed [alleged] police abuse in the province of Corrientes, was found beaten and hanged, police sources in Argentina reported Sunday [May 21, 2023]. Her ex-partner was arrested Sunday on suspicion of femicide, but the family links the crime to Blanco's revelations. She was 45 years old. [...] Lautaro Cesani, 25, […]

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Guatemalan court suspends trial of four police officers for journalist's arrest in 2014

"A Guatemalan court suspended this Wednesday [May 17] the start of deliberations against four agents of the National Civil Police (PNC, by its Spanish acronym), accused of the illegal arrest of community journalist Norma Sancir in 2014, due to the fact that one of the accused did not show up. Police agent Marcelina López was […]

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Colombian Constitutional Court: Political actors bear responsibility for online violence against women journalists

"We celebrate the recent ruling T-087 of 2023 of the Constitutional Court that recognizes online violence against women journalists and establishes responsibilities to prevent and punish it. This ruling is the product of a tutela action filed by Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP, by its Spanish acronym) in October 2020, in which we […]

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Honduras: Four journalists receive death threats on digital platforms

"In the last ten days, at least four journalists in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula have received death threats through platforms and social media. The increase in threats and intimidation against journalists and media outlets is produced by unknown persons who have said to be against the opinions issued and the work of these communicators. […]

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'No one forgets him here!': Six years after the murder of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez

"Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas was nationally and internationally recognized for his crónicas and investigations, in which he reported the violence in his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He practiced journalism in the midst of the prevailing violence in Mexico and confronted, through his pen, corruption, political power and drug trafficking. For Javier, self-censorship was never […]

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Guatemala: Trial to begin against police officers who illegally detained journalist Norma Sancir

"On May 17, the trial will begin against three agents and a former commissioner of the National Civil Police of Guatemala for the illegal detention of journalist Norma Sancir, on Sept. 18, 2014. Sancir was covering a demonstration of the Mayan Ch'orti' people in the municipality of Camotán. They were demanding the approval of the […]

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Colombia: After 23 years, official goes on trial for the kidnapping of journalist Jineth Bedoya

"On May 16, a trial begins against Marco Javier Morantes Pico, the guard who twenty-three years ago received journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima in La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia. That was the starting point for her subsequent kidnapping, torture, and sexual violence in retaliation for her journalistic work. Although the crime happened more than two […]

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Former Reuters and Telemundo journalist shot to death in Acapulco, Mexico

"Journalist Gerardo Torres Rentería was shot to death by a group of armed men on the night of May 11, 2023, inside his private home located on 2nd Street in the Icacos neighborhood, a few meters from Avenida Costera Miguel Áleman and the main entrance of the facilities of the Eighth Naval Region in Acapulco, […]

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Colombia: Journalist Luis Gabriel Pereira is murdered in Cordoba

"We reject and regret the murder of Luis Gabriel Pereira, journalist and director of the digital news outlet Notiorense, in Ciénaga de Oro, Córdoba [Colombia]. The crime took place on the afternoon of May 9, in the Julio Manzur neighborhood. Two men on a motorcycle shot the journalist. Luis Gabriel Pereira, 25, had only been […]

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Mexico: Almost eight years since the crime of photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and four women, relatives demand progress from Attorney General's Office

"Almost eight years after the crime, relatives of Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and the other four women murdered in what is known as the Narvarte Case demanded progress from the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City, especially in determining the motive and identifying the masterminds. At a press conference held at the Mexico City Human […]

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Another journalist arrested in Nicaragua, the third one in three days

The Nicaraguan journalist Hazel Zamora Hernández, news director of a local program and collaborator of Channel 10 television in Nicaragua's southern Caribbean, was detained on Friday, May 5, by the National Police, according to the website Alertas Libertad de Prensa Nicaragua. The journalist was detained by police while traveling with her children in a public […]