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Violence Against Journalists

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Mexican Photojournalist Alfredo Cardoso dies after being abducted and shot three days earlier in Guerrero

"Photojournalist Alfredo Cardoso Echeverría died this Sunday [Oct. 31], after being injured at dawn on Oct. 29, when he was forced to leave his home in a violent manner. Cardoso Echeverría was found with two gunshot wounds, near his home. " Read original article (in Spanish)

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Journalist Fredy López Arévalo shot dead in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico

"The dark list of attacks on the press continues in Mexico. This Thursday [Oct. 28), journalist Fredy López Arévalo was shot dead in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. The attack took place around eight o'clock in the afternoon in the door of the home of the reporter, who was returning home accompanied by his […]

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Journalist's residence in Guatemala raided

"[During the State of Siege issued by the El Estor municipality, in Izabal, Guatemala] one of the inspection and registration raids was carried out at the residence of Juan Bautista Xol, a correspondent for Prensa Comunitaria. The National Civil Police denied that the journalist has been detained According to the institution's spokesman, Jorge Aguilar, Bautista […]

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Mexico, ten years after the murder of journalist ‘Milo Vela’: no author or motive

“In his last column in the Mexican regional newspaper Notiver, Miguel Ángel López Velasco addressed femicide, political nepotism and the contamination of drinking water. Authorities had promised to deal with the problems, wrote López Velasco, then deputy director of that media outlet for the state of Veracruz. "And if not, we will remind you here," […]

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Lawmaker charged with Brazilian journalist’s abduction and torture

"Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its acronym in French) hails the progress in the investigation into journalist Romano dos Anjos’s abduction and torture in October 2020 in Roraima state, in northern Brazil, which has led to the arrest of Roraima state assembly representative Jalser Renier. The judicial system must now clearly identify everyone involved in […]

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Police colonel sends threatening letter to Ecuadoran journalist to reveal his sources

"The Colonel of the National Police, Rafael Marcelo Pérez Aguirre, sent a letter to the journalist of Código Vidrio, Arturo Torres, with threatening terms in which he asked to know the journalist's source and also disqualified his work, after the communicator launched a tweet on Twitter. Torres wrote a thread on Twitter that reported that […]

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Guatemalan journalist says government is fabricating a case against him

"Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, president and founder of the morning newspaper elPeriódico, denounced this Tuesday [Oct. 19] before the general public that the head of the Executive, Alejandro Giammattei, together with the attorney general and head of the public prosecutor's office, Consuelo Porras, 'are fabricating' a case against him to incarcerate him. Zamora, one […]

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Authorities detain man and woman allegedly implicated in murder of Mexican journalist Enrique García

"A man and a woman allegedly implicated in the murder of the communicator and journalist Enrique García, which occurred on June 16, were detained, reported the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM, [for its acronym in Spanish]). Joseph Argenis 'N' and Kimberly Isabel 'N' were transferred to the Almoloya de Juárez prison, […]

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Murder of Colombian journalist Marcos Montalvo was motivated by his work: FLIP

“The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) [of Colombia] learned that the Special Investigation Unit of the Prosecutor's Office has deployed investigative actions that indicate that the murder was determined by denunciations made by Marcos Efraín [Montalvo] in his capacity as journalist. This line of investigation coincides with the information collected by FLIP during its mission […]

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In Argentina, FOPEA condemns intimidation and attacks on journalists while reporting in Tucumán

“The Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA) repudiates the intimidation and physical attacks suffered by journalists and cameramen from Tucumán this Tuesday [Oct. 5], during the coverage of a trial. Mariana Romero (Los Primeros), José Inesta (TN), Javier Cacieccio (El Tucumano), José Romero Silva and Javier Doldan (Telefé Tucumán) received insults and were attacked with stones by […]