"Sympathizers of the Cuban regime have verbally and physically assaulted the minor children of Martha Liset Sánchez and Alberto Corzo, who are journalists from the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP, for its acronym in Spanish), and also run the community media outlet Cocodrillo Callejero. The complaint was published on the ICLEP […]
" Mexican journalist Francisco Canul Cauich, who was one of the first people to report and make public the case of Víctoria Salazar, the woman killed by police in Tulum, Quintana Roo, denounced that his house was raided. The events occurred on April 4, when the journalist was away from his home. He denounced that […]
"Four unidentified men invaded a radio studio located in the municipality of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, in Agreste de Pernambuco, [Brazil], on Tuesday night (April 6, 2021). On the occasion, the men, who declare themselves supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, threatened to attack radio broadcaster Júnior Albuquerque after he criticized the federal government's health policy […]
"On March 30, near the village of Santa Bárbara, about five miles northeast of the capital, La Paz, a group of truck drivers abducted, assaulted, and robbed Guzmán, a freelance reporter on assignment for the privately owned broadcaster Radio FM Bolivia, according to Guzmán and Radio FM Bolivia news director Galo Hubner, both of whom […]
"After a report in which the elected mayor (of the party Nuevas Ideas) of Conchagua, in La Unión, is questioned, a journalist from Revista Factum, Bryan Avelar, was threatened with death by a user on social networks. The Salvadoran Association of Journalists (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) denounced the incident and stated that the […]
Updated entry: "However, this Thursday [April 1] Venezuelan journalists Luis Gonzalo Pérez and Rafael Hernández were released, more than 24 hours after they were detained. The alarms went off at night, after having lost communication with all of them. After more than 20 hours without communication, the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP, for its […]
"Guatemalan investigative journalists Sonny Figueroa and Marvin del Cid denounced on Wednesday [March 31] that they had been the object of surveillance and attacks against them and one of them even said the National Civil Police (PNC, for its acronym in Spanish) held him near his home, without explanation. It is not the first time […]
"Journalist Carlos Alberto Tafur Grandez, of the program Señal Informativa Digital, of Radio Stereo G 96.5, has received death threats after revealing irregularities in the district municipalities of Huambos, Longar and the provincial municipality of Rodríguez de Mendoza, in the Amazon region. As the journalist pointed out to the Human Rights Office of the National […]
"The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation [of Colombia] reported this Tuesday [March 30] that a judge has sentenced FARC dissident Jesús Vargas Cuajiboy, alias Reinel, to 28 years and eight months in prison for the abduction and murder of a journalistic team from Ecuadoran newspaper El Comercio, perpetrated on March 26, 2018. [...] […]
"Journalist Cristian Bianciotto filed a complaint with the public prosecutor on Friday [March 26] against Eladio González, mayor of Coronel Oviedo, in light of the acts of coercion and death threat. It's a situation that has been going on for several months. The communicator fears for his life and that of his family, according to […]
"A press team with Chilean national television (TVN) was shot while reporting in southern Chile, causing serious injuries to a cameraman and loss of vision in one eye, as reported by authorities reported on Sunday (March 28, 2021). Cameraman Esteban Sánchez suffered an ocular flare as a result of the shots he received while moving with […]
"The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a resolution to adopt provisional measures in the Bedoya Lima and another v. Colombia Case, by virtue of which the Colombian State is ordered to immediately implement all the necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of the alleged victims Jineth Bedoya Lima and Luz Nelly […]