"Two days after the publication of an investigation that stopped a campaign based on slanderous disinformation against news website IDL-R director, Gustavo Gorriti and newspaper La República director Gustavo Mohme, the ultra-right-wing groups known as 'La Pestilencia' [the Pestilence] violently attacked the offices of IDL-Reporteros on Friday night [May 5], which represented the fourth attack […]
"During 2022, 88 attacks on journalism and freedom of expression were recorded in Argentina, according to the Annual Report of the Freedom of Expression Monitoring carried out every year by the Argentine Journalism Forum (Fopea, by its Spanish acronym). The figure marked a decrease of 18.52% in relation to 2021, when 108 cases were recorded. […]
"Seventy-one percent of digital attacks against journalists have been directed against women in recent months in Peru. The most common forms of offense against them were stereotypes and judgments based on their appearance, according to a study conducted using artificial intelligence by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Released on International Press Freedom Day [May […]
"The search for the truth, access to justice, comprehensive reparation, and preservation of collective memory are the main lines of action of the initiative 'Tejidos solidarios [Weaving solidarity],' the first national network of relatives of murdered and disappeared journalists in Mexico, presented this Thursday (April 28). After the unprecedented violence against the press in recent […]
"Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro have been promoting yet another disinformation campaign about the January 8 coup acts. This time, the target is photo reporter Adriano Machado, from the Reuters news agency. In addition to trying to blame the current government for acts caused by supporters of the former president, the Bolsonarists are now […]
"Photojournalist Sérgio Silva still had a remnant of hope that the Court of Justice of São Paulo would reconsider its 2017 decision, but that's not what happened. The 9th Chamber of Civil Law unanimously maintained, on Wednesday (April 26), the understanding that the State is not responsible for the shooting by a military police officer […]
"Representatives of the Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos del Paraguay [Human Rights Coordinator of Paraguay or Codehupy, by its Spanish acronym] and the Sindicato de Periodistas del Paraguay [Paraguayan Journalists Union] presented [this Wednesday, April 26] in Congress a draft bill that seeks the establishment of an institution to ensure the safety of journalists and human […]
"Another journalist was murdered within 48 hours in Haiti, the most dangerous country in which to practice journalism, according to a preliminary report by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) released Tuesday [April 25]. The body of Ricot Jean, a journalist with Radio-Télé Évolution Inter in Saint-Marc, a town 73 km [45 miles] north of […]
"A court sentenced to 34 years and six months in prison two people accused as material authors of the murder of journalist Gerardo Delgado in October of last year, informed this Monday [April 24] the Ecuadorian Public Prosecutor's Office. 'Based on evidence presented at the trial, the Prosecutor's Office obtained a sentence of 34 years […]
"Periodistas Sin Cadenas Foundation informs the public that another journalist of Ecuadorian nationality has left the country in the face of successive threats against his life and the lack of action on the part of the authorities to guarantee his safety. The victim, whose name will be withheld, has received repeated threats that were brought […]
"The [Brazilian] Judiciary determined that Google must pay a daily fine of R$ 100 thousand [about US $20 thousand] if it does not pass on information about e-mails posted on the platform containing death threats to two journalists from the Congresso em Foco news outlet. The Civil Police of the Federal District identified the suspect […]
“'If you have to kill me, go ahead and kill me. But I say it to your face: you won’t silence me.’ Colombian journalist Rafael Moreno defied his detractors and predicted his own demise with these words, spoken in a 37-minute Facebook live on July 21, 2022. […] For more than half an hour, the […]