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Violence Against Journalists

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Anti-vaccine group intimidates press teams in Bolivia with firecrackers

"Press teams of Red Uno, Univalle, Los Tiempos, and others were intimidated on the morning of Jan. 18, with the explosion of firecrackers (fireworks) and stone-throwing by a group of people who said they were against the vaccination card requirement. The protesters blocked traffic on Petrolera Avenue, kilometer 6, south of the city of Cochabamba, […]

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IACHR Condemns Murder of Honduran Indigenous Leader and Journalist

"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (RELE) condemn the murder of the Lenca indigenous leader and community journalist Pablo Isabel Hernández Rivera in Honduras. It urges the State of Honduras to investigate the events in a prompt and diligent manner. Likewise, it asks […]

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Two journalists murdered in one week in Mexico

"Two journalists were murdered in Mexico in a week. Freelance photojournalist Margarito Martínez was shot on Monday Jan. 17 in the border city of Tijuana, the same day the murder of another journalist in the state of Veracruz was confirmed. Martínez, who worked as a police photographer for several national and international media outlets and […]

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Mexico: Coahuila civil police injures journalist and damages work equipment to prevent him from documenting police abuses

"In the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 9, hooded elements of the Civil Police of Coahuila (PCC, by its Spanish acronym) attached to the Secretariat of Public Security, injured, threatened and damaged the work equipment of the Vanguardia media reporter, Daniel Leal de Koster, in Saltillo, Coahuila. (...) When the coverage began, the policemen sought […]

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Abraji condemns threat suffered by Intercept Brasil editor-in-chief

"Editor-in-chief of the website Intercept Brasil, journalist Leandro Demori was threatened by a man this Sunday, Jan. 9, while walking through a tourist neighborhood with his wife and three-year-old son, in Balneário Camboriú. […] Abraji vehemently condemns the threat suffered by Leandro Demori, which occurred in a moment of fragility, when the journalist was with […]

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El País remembers journalists who died in Mexico in a violent way in 2021

"In 2021, nine journalists were killed in Mexico. This number ranks the country as the deadliest in the world for the press, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). [...] In 2021, [Mexico] was the sixth country with the most unsolved crimes; the five [countries] at the top are at war. 'The conclusion after […]

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Trial is scheduled for disappearance of journalist in Peru after a 37-year wait

"After a 37-year wait, the oral trial will begin for the disappearance of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca, from radio Huanta 2000 and correspondent for the newspaper La República in Huanta (Ayacucho, Peru). He was last seen on Aug. 2, 1984 when he entered the navy  barracks, stationed in the province's Municipal Stadium. The Fourth National […]

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Attacks on journalists in the state of Veracruz in Mexico totaled 93 in 2021

"With three groups detected as aggressors, 93 attacks and the murder of a journalist, it is how the State Commission for the Attention and Protection of Journalists (CEAPP) [in the state of Veracruz] closed its statistics for 2021, Israel Hernández Sosa, executive secretary of CEAPP, said. He commented that organized crime occupies a high percentage within […]

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Peru: Municipal manager responds to journalist with a blow to the head

"On Jan. 3, 2022, journalist Guillermo Bazán, a reporter for "Ke Buena Virú" was struck by Roger Ubillús, manager of the Municipality of Virú, a city in the La Libertad region, in northern Peru. [...] Faced with the insistent demands of the reporter, the municipal manager reacted by giving him a strong blow to the […]

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Argentine newspaper El Chubut offices torched, ransacked amid protests

"At around 8:40 p.m. on Dec. 20, a group of unidentified people gathered at the newspaper’s headquarters in the city of Trelew, in the southern province of Chubut, and threw rocks and firebombs into the building, breaking windows and setting several fires, according to news reports and El Chubut politics section chief Rubén Darío Giménez, […]

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Mexico: Governor of Jalisco sues journalist for moral damage after publication of articles

"The governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, announced on Dec. 27 that he had filed lawsuits against the journalist and researcher Ricardo Ravelo Galó, of the SinEmbargo news outlet, for alleged moral damage. [...] The governor's reaction comes after the journalist published two articles on Dec. 17 and 24part of a journalistic […]