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Violence Against Journalists

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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 […]

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Mexico: Tijuana journalists join forces to do justice to their murdered colleagues, says El País in a special article

"Tijuana's journalists, united these days by force of gunpowder, work more hours than the day is long to continue reporting on their city and, at the same time, to do the work that the Prosecutor's office should speed up in carrying out. Aware that the crimes against their colleagues in the Semanario Zeta go unpunished—as […]

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Peru: Children of journalists murdered in Uchuraccay still await justice

“Their parents were taken from them in 1983, and since then they've asked for the case to be clarified and for justice to be done. 'These are photos that shock me, that always scared me because to me they meant death,'  journalist Alicia Retto said, recalling the snapshots of her father, photographer Willy Retto, taken before […]

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The challenge of providing protection to threatened journalists in Mexico

"The murder of two journalists in Tijuana in a week once again raises the complexity of providing security to journalists in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries for journalism and where protection mechanisms are overwhelmed or inefficient. Photographer Margarito Martínez and reporter Lourdes Maldonado were murdered on January 17 and last Sunday, respectively. [...] […]

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Argentina: 'Never again a journalist assassinated'

"The Association of Graphic Reporters of the Argentine Republic (Argra) commemorated this Jan. 25 [...] the 25th anniversary of the murder of photographer José Luis Cabezas. The organizers of the memorial said the crime against the journalist was "an act to intimidate journalism and society." The event was also attended by representatives of press unions, under the […]

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Mexico: Journalist from Oaxaca is shot after a car chase, but escapes unharmed

"This Wed. Jan. 26 in the morning, after a car chase, armed individuals shot at the Oaxacan journalist José Ignacio Santiago Martínez, when he was on his way to the city of Juchitán, in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the victim confirmed to EL UNIVERSAL, the Ombudsman for Human Rights of the People […]

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Gender violence against journalists in Brazil totaled 119 cases in 2021, according to report

"During 2021, 89 journalists and media outlets were the target of 119 gender-related attacks related to their profession, which represents almost 10 cases of aggression, abuse, threats and intimidation per month. As a result of monitoring gender-based violence against journalists, carried out by the Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Investigativo (Abraji), the data includes attacks involving […]