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Violence Against Journalists

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Molotov cocktails explode against Peruvian journalist's vehicle

"In the early morning of April 14, unknown persons detonated a Molotov cocktail against the car of journalist Roberto Sánchez Mamani, of La Estación radio in Tacna, a region in the south of the country. The incident happened at the door of the radio station where Sánchez works."   Read original article (in Spanish)

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Three years after the murder of El Comercio journalistic team: FLIP says 'the Colombian State continues to fail the victims'

“Three years ago, Ecuadoran President Lenín Moreno confirmed the deaths of Javier Ortega, Paúl Rivas and Efraín Segarra, journalistic team of the newspaper El Comercio. During these years, the Colombian State has repeatedly failed the families of the victims. Truth, justice and reparation are absent in this case. The [Colombian] Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, […]

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Diosdado Cabello threatens journalists who cover the confrontations on the border with Colombia: 'They must be considered enemies'

"The number two of Chavismo, Diosdado Cabello, launched a threat this Wednesday [April 7] against Venezuelan journalists who want to cover the armed conflict that is unfolding in the border state of Apure. 'Whoever enters there to play the enemy's game must be considered an enemy. They are waiting for some Venezuelans to be murdered […]

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Bolivia TV denounces aggression against its journalists in Sucre

"The government channel Bolivia TV denounced that two of its workers, a journalist and a cameraman, were attacked the day before by militants from the Chuquisaca Somos Todos (CST) group when they tried to cover an electoral campaign in the city of Sucre. The channel denounced that the incident prevented journalist Kevin Revollo and cameraman […]

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Cuba: Children attacked because their parents are independent journalists

"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 […]

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Home of Mexican journalist who reported murder of a woman in Tulum is raided

" 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 […]

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Brazil: Men invade studio and threaten to attack broadcaster who criticized Bolsonaro

"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 […]

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Bolivian radio journalist Franklin Guzmán Zambrana assaulted, robbed while covering protest

"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 […]

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Journalist from El Salvador's Revista Factum receives death threat

"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 […]

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Venezuelan journalists detained for 24 hours while reporting in conflict zone

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 […]

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Guatemalan journalists denounce new surveillance and attacks against them

"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 […]

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Peruvian journalist reports death threats and harassment after denouncing mismanagement by local authorities

"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 […]