"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 […]
"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 […]
"Veracruz journalist José Luis Gamboa Arenas unfortunately passed away last Saturday, Jan. 15, after being stabbed during an alleged robbery in the port of Veracruz [Mexico]. Seriously injured, Gamboa Arenas was taken to a hospital where his death was later confirmed. 'The motive for the crime of said male person is unknown. It was only […]
"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 […]
"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 […]
"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 […]
"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 […]
"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 […]
"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 […]
"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, […]
"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 […]
At least 10 media professionals have been assassinated in the region near the border between Brazil and Paraguay in the last 10 years. Their deaths are largely related to organized crime. However, sometimes crimes are committed in retaliation for political disagreements, unrelated to criminal groups. The most recent case was that of Brazilian Léo Veras, […]