The journalist for the state radio station Patria Nueva, Jeruslava Ojeda, suffered verbal and physical attacks while covering an incident at the doors of the Departmental Chamber of Small-Scale Industry [in Santa Cruz]. The National Press Association (ANP), as it has in all cases of aggression against journalists, denounced the violence against this communicator. According […]
"The Attorney General's Office of Colombia" accused the trainee prison guard of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) Marco Javier Morantes Pico as allegedly responsible for the crime of simple aggravated kidnapping, in relation to the violent acts against the journalist." Bedoya, the now editor of special issues for the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo, […]
"Lydia Cacho knows she cannot return to her native country, Mexico. She knows about the existence of hitmen hired to assassinate her. She has been in Spain since December 2019. Even so, unable to see her family, exiled, she is happy. She is grateful to be able to walk around the street, live in a […]
"A federal judge sentenced Martín Eduardo L., alias 'El Tacones,' one of the alleged murderers of journalist Israel Vázquez Rangel in Salamanca, Guanajuato, to 20 years in prison. The ruling recognized the journalistic quality of the victim and that the murder was carried out with the purpose of limiting his freedom of expression," reported the […]
"On Dec. 1, Jairo Roque Gómez, editor of the independent Diario Hechicera newspaper in the northern city of Tumbes, published a story about possible irregularities in the contract process to build a public school in Contralmirante Villar, a nearby township, according to Peru’s National Journalists Association and Roque who spoke to CPJ via messaging app. […]
"On Dec. 7, at about 8:30 p.m., two unidentified men with their faces covered broke into Mabel Páez’s home in the western province of Artemisa and attacked her, according to news reports and Normando Hernández, general manager of the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP), who spoke to CPJ via messaging […]
“The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued, on Dec. 8, 2021, Resolution 101/21, granting precautionary measures in favor of María Lilly Delgado Talavera, after considering that she is in serious and urgent situational risk of irreparable damage to her rights in Nicaragua. According to the requestors, as a result of her journalistic work in […]
"In a historical event, the first of its kind to be reached in Mexico in the case of a disappeared journalist, this Wednesday [Dec. 9] in Empalme, Sonora will be the signing of the Friendly Settlement Agreement and Public Act of Acknowledgement of Responsibility, by the Mexican State to the indirect victims of the disappearance […]
“Alexander Gálvez, the Haitian correspondent who was abducted by gangs in Haiti, was released this Monday [Dec. 6] after being deprived of his liberty for nine days. As reported by the Haitian media outlet Radio Télé Métronome, the abduction of the reporter from Grupo de Medios Telemicro had been perpetrated by the criminal gang ‘400 […]
"The Júri Court, in Curitiba, Brazil, sentenced hitman Flavio Acosta Riveros to 36 years in prison for the murder of Paraguayan journalist Pablo Medina and his assistant Antonia Almada, which took place in 2014. (...) Pablo Medina and his assistant were ambushed and killed on Oct. 16, 2017, in Villa Ygatimí, Canindeyú department in Paraguay. […]