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Violence Against Journalists

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Mexico: Journalist reported missing in Chiapas

"The Attorney General's Office of the State of Chiapas issued a report on Mon. Sept. 27, requesting the the public's help in figuring out the whereabouts of journalist Roberto Flores Mendoza, who has been missing since Sept. 20. The journalist was last seen in the neighborhood of La Pileta, in the municipality of Comitán de […]

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Uruguay: Alleged spying on journalist by police chief under investigation

"[...] Journalist Gabriel Pereyra (Radio Sarandí, VTV) denounced last weekend through his Twitter account that a police chief at the Intelligence Service had ordered for him to be monitored and followed. 'The third in command in the Police Intelligence Service ordered surveillance on my person. The president [of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou] and the minister […]

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U.S. frees alleged killer of Mexican journalist

"The United States released Dámaso López Serrano, alias the 'Mini-lic.' He is the drug trafficker who in 2017 turned himself in to authorities in California and is wanted in Mexico as the alleged mastermind of the murder that same year of Sinaloa journalist Javier Valdez. According to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons website, López […]

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Mexico: Gunmen threaten reporter Rodrigo Bustillos in Tehuacán

"Mexican authorities must immediately and properly investigate threats against journalist Rodrigo Bustillos and guarantee his safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday (Sept 16). Bustillos, a veteran reporter based in Tehuacán in the central Mexican state of Puebla, currently works for privately owned news sites Domingo7 Tehuacán and Grupo Entiempo Comunicaciones, which post their coverage on Facebook. […]

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Colombia: One year after journalist Efraín Montalvo's murder, FLIP denounces lack of progress in investigation

"One year ago, on Sept. 19, 2021, journalist Marcos Efraín Montalvo was murdered in Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. [...] His murder created an atmosphere of self-censorship and made visible the risks faced by the press in the region. For the [Colombian] Prosecutor's Office, one of the hypotheses is that the murder was related to […]

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Peru: Subjects throw dynamite and destroy front of Cadena Sur television station's front wall

"In the early morning of Sept. 13, security cameras captured the precise moment in which two subjects on board a motorcycle threw an explosive at the main door of the television channel Cadena Sur de Ica (...) This impact totally destroyed the front of the establishment. To date, only material damage has been reported. According […]

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New attack on journalist Vera Magalhães is the result of a wave of pro-Bolsonaro intimidation of journalism, organizations in Brazil said

"The undersigned organizations address Brazilian society to express their indignation and revolt over a new attack against Vera Magalhães, host of the program Roda Viva, of TV Cultura, and columnist for the newspaper O Globo and CBN radio. Magalhães was harassed and verbally assaulted on Tues. night on Sept. 13, by Sao Paulo state deputy […]

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Freedom or bullets: 20 journalists silenced in Paraguay in 30 years

"The murder of radio broadcaster and journalist Humberto Coronel by a hit man in Pedro Juan Caballero, last Sept. 6, reopened the bleeding wound of the bullets that silenced the voices of journalism. Paraguay has 20 journalists and communicators murdered in the democratic era, in the course of 30 years. This is the figure of […]

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Ecuadorian Attorney General's Office raids offices of digital news outlet in Manta for investigation into journalist's murder

"One month after the assassination of journalist Gerardo Delgado, [who used to work at] Ola Manta, the Montecristi Prosecutor's Office is moving forward with preliminary investigations, amid complete secrecy. According to information from the news outlet La Marea de Manabí, by a request of the Police to the Prosecutor's Office, and by order of a […]

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Haiti: Journalists Frantzsen Charles and Tayson Lartigue killed and burned while reporting

"Two of seven journalists who were reporting on Sun. Sept. 11, in the Haitian neighborhood of Cité Soleil, scene of a bloody gang clash, were killed and subsequently burned, local media reported Monday. The journalists were identified as Frantzsen Charles, who works for FS News, and Tayson Lartigue, of Tijèn Jounalis. Consulted by the EFE […]