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Violence Against Journalists

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Cuban police detain journalist Henry Constantín

"'You don't know the bunch of pesos they pay me to go after people like you,' an official of the Cuban regime said Thursday, June 30, to journalist Henry Constantine, director of the independent media La Hora de Cuba. Constantine was detained 60 meters from his home in Camagüey, Cuba, by a State Security agent who […]

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Indigenous expert murdered alongside British journalist was investigating the role of the city government in illegal fishing

"Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira – who died on June 5, 2022, along with British journalist Dom Phillips, in the Javari Valley (AM) – was mapping the connections of the Atalaia do Norte (AM) city hall with the group involved in poaching and illegal fishing in the Indigenous Land of the Javari Valley. Pereira had […]

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Journalist Antonio de la Cruz murdered in Tamaulipas, Mexico

"Journalist Antonio de la Cruz was riddled with bullets near his home this Wednesday morning, June 29. A family member was wounded, according to initial reports from the authorities. The reporter, who had worked for 15 years for the Expreso newspaper in the capital of Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, has become the 12th murder of journalists […]

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ANP strongly condemns the release of kidnappers of journalists in Bolivia

"A strong condemnation was expressed by the Bolivian National Press Association (ANP, by its Spanish acronym) after the decision of Judge Roberto Cruz Hurtado who freed two kidnappers of journalists, in two hearings held between June 22 and 27, and described the fact as a reprehensible act of impunity that distorts the sense of justice. […]

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Peru: Fujimori's trial for journalist's 1991 murder postponed

"Peru's Judiciary postponed the start of the trial scheduled for this Thursday for the death of young journalist Melisa Alfaro, who died in 1991 due to the explosion of an envelope bomb, allegedly prepared by the Army Intelligence Service, during the government of then President Alberto Fujimori (...) In October 1991, Alfaro was 23 years […]

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Mexico: Journalists caught in crossfire as Guerrero community police report attack by armed groups

"Journalists and community police in the town of Tula, in Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, were caught in a crossfire while they were holding a press conference on June 21st. According to Pulso Informativo Guerrero, members of the Regional Coordinator of Community Police were informing the news media about attacks by the criminal group Los Ardillos […]

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National strike in Ecuador: Fundamedios registers 62 aggressions against the press

"A group of demonstrators outside the Montebello market, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, attacked a team of journalists from the newspaper El Universo. They forced them to leave while covering a protest that had gathered some 300 people. After aggressions and threats, the team had to leave and the photographer was asked to erase the images he […]

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Prosecutor's office in charge of investigating murders of journalists in Mexico dismisses 68% of cases because of finding no relation with their line of work in news media

"68.1% of the murders of journalists are dismissed by the Special Prosecutor's Office for Attention to Crimes Committed against Freedom of Expression (Feadle) [of Mexico], because in its investigations it did not find any relation with the news media work. This federal agency was created on July 5, 2010. Since then and until April 30, […]

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Remains of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, shot to death in the Brazilian Amazon, identified

"Forensic analysis confirmed on Sat. June 18, that the second body found on Wed. June 15 in the Amazon is that of Bruno Pereira, a 41-year-old father of three children. The day before, British journalist Dom Phillips, 57, a contributor to The Guardian newspaper who had been living in Brazil for 15 years, was identified. […]

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Nearly 118 journalists have left Nicaragua due to insecurity

"According to a report released by the regional security network, Voces del Sur, of Nicaragua, nearly 118 journalists have left the nation since 2018 for security reasons, since the outbreak of demonstrations against the government of President Daniel Ortega. The document sent to international agencies states that among journalists are cameramen, reporters, editors, photographers, and […]

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Report unravels impact of forced displacement of threatened journalists in Mexico

"Uncertainty. Anguish. Censorship and self-censorship. Job instability. Lack of protection from the State. But, above all, what Mexican journalists who are threatened and forced to leave their place of residence suffer is fear. This is revealed in the report 'The fear is still there. Critical journalism in displacement and resistance,' by the Mexican civil association Aluna […]