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Violence Against Journalists

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Fifth journalist murdered in Mexico so far in 2022, colleagues demand justice

"'And now, who's next?... We no longer want to come and bury another colleague. We are fed up with speeches, we demand a law that protects us. It is not fair to take our lives for denouncing corruption,' Oaxaca Isthmus journalist Rodolfo Canseco said. Family, friends and colleagues said goodbye on Feb. 13 at the […]

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Peru's Judiciary ratifies acquittal of OjoPúblico's director in defamation lawsuit

"The Judiciary permanently shelved the last defamation complaint filed by the Peruvian American citizen Miguel Arévalo Ramírez, known as 'Eteco,' in the files of the Anti-Drug Police and the Prosecutor's Office, against Óscar Castilla, executive director of OjoPúblico.  In 2016, Castilla published an investigative journalistic series about Arévalo's judicial history. Since 2017, Arévalo filed a series […]

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Journalist Heber López Vásquez murdered in Oaxaca, the fifth murder of a journalist in Mexico in 2022

"Journalism in Mexico is once again in mourning. This Thursday [02/10], journalist Heber López Vásquez, a reporter in the port of Salina Cruz, in the state of Oaxaca, was shot dead in his home, a continuing pattern. López Vásquez, 39, was director of the local page RCP Noticias in Oaxaca, and his death occurred after […]

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Judge finds Nicaraguan journalist Miguel Mora guilty of conspiracy

"A Nicaraguan judge found journalist Miguel Mora guilty for the crime of 'conspiracy' on Feb. 4. Mora was one of seven presidential candidates imprisoned in the country for eight months, after announcing his intention to run against President Daniel Ortega. Ortega was re-elected in November for a fourth consecutive term. The former director of the […]

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Abraji condemns murder of journalist in Ceará, Brazil

"Journalist Givanildo Oliveira, 46, was murdered on Monday night Feb. 7, hours after publishing a report on the arrest of a murder suspect. Oliveira was one of the founders of the site Pirambu News, which covered news about the neighborhood of Fortaleza. The first report indicates that he had been threatened not to publish information about […]

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US Senators ask Mexico to do more to protect journalists

"MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two prominent U.S. Senators published an open letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday asking him to “urge the Mexican government to seriously improve efforts to protect journalists.” Four journalists in Mexico were killed in January, and a fifth was attacked but escaped unharmed in February after the attacker’s gun […]

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Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández sues actor after threats

"Journalist Anabel Hernández said she will not ignore threats against her, such as those made by actor Andrés García,  made public through a video, and for which she has already sued him in a criminal court. 'In said lawsuit I asked the Prosecutor's Office that in addition to threats against me, Mr. Andrés García's gender […]

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Unstoppable violence: A sixth journalist is attacked in Mexico

"Violence against the press in Mexico continues to be unstoppable. The director of a Mexican Caribbean news outlet suffered an attack on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at night. He escaped unharmed thanks to the fact that the attacker's weapon jammed at the moment he was going to shoot him. This saved him by mere seconds from […]

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Director of Human Rights Watch Americas says Mexican president does not care about murdered journalists

"The director of the Americas of Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, said that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador 'does not care about the issue of murdered journalists.' 'In the last 20 years, at least 145 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico and of those, 25 in the first three years of his government. […]

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Men shoot, attack and break equipment of journalists in the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahía

"Armed criminals threatened teams of reporters from the TV channels Aratu and Band in Águas Claras, Salvador, in Brazil, on the morning of Feb. 1. The journalists were there to report on a homicide that occurred on Santa Tereza Street. The armed men fired into the air near press crews to intimidate the journalists. Band's […]

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Political actors instigated a third of online gender attacks against journalists in Brazil in 2021

"According to monitoring of gender violence against journalists, carried out by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by its Portuguese acronym), 85 (71.4%) of the 119 attacks recorded in 2021 had their origin or some repercussion in the digital environment. The numbers reveal an additional difficulty that social media and the digital environment pose […]