"Trafficker Elias Pereira da Silva, known as Elias Maluco, was found dead on Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 22) at the Catanduvas Federal Penitentiary, in western Paraná, Brazil, according to information from the Penitentiary Department (Depen). According to Depen, the Federal Police was called in to conduct an investigation on the spot. The body will be taken […]
"ESMAD (Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron) threw a stun grenade at Fabián Yañez, a journalist with Revista Semana, while he was covering the demonstrations of the National Strike on Sept. 21 in Plaza de Bolivar in Bogotá... As captured on video, Yañez complained to the police for having shot him without justification while he was preparing to […]
“With deep scars from the deaths of 27 colleagues and six more disappeared in 15 years, journalists from the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz today face new threats to their person and the right to inform, as reflected in the murder and beheading of Julio Valdivia. Coverage of intense shootings is slowly being left behind. […]
“This Wednesday morning, the FM Horizonte radio studio in the city of Villa Río Bermejito, in the province of Chaco, was the scene of a very violent situation. At around 11 am, journalist Luis Mancini was conducting his program live when suddenly two men, one of them a city official, invaded the place and gave […]
“A bill presented by [Brazilian] senator Fabiano Contarato (Rede-ES) proposed including an article in the Penal Code to criminalize the harassment of press professionals to impede or make more difficult their work. The bill sets a penalty of a six-month detention and a fine." Read original article (Spanish)
“Julio Valdivia, 44, was killed Wednesday, according to El Mundo de Córdoba, the newspaper where he worked, and local authorities. His body was found decapitated with signs of violence in the municipality of Tezonapa, in the center of Veracruz, which borders the gulf of Mexico. This is the second murder of a press person in […]
“The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) denounced the illegal detention, the physical aggressions and obstruction of journalists work that happened on Sept. 9. Unlike other protests, on Sept. 9, National Day of Human Rights, all the cases were attributed to the National Police. [...] On Wednesday Sept. 9, 2020, protesters took to the streets of […]
"Salvadoran authorities should make public any details about an alleged criminal investigation into InSight Crime journalist Héctor Silva Ávalos and stop using official social media channels to criticize and harass independent journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On September 1, Salvadoran news website La Página published an article reporting that the national Attorney General’s office had […]
"In the last 25 years more than 2,300 journalists and reporters have died due to their profession. The majority have died while covering war zones like Afghanistan, Syria and Iran, but also in other countries like Mexico, China and the Philippines. In 2019 alone, 49 journalists were murdered, 389 were imprisoned and 57 were kidnapped." […]
"Cuban journalist Roberto Quinones was released Friday after serving a year's imprisonment in a case that drew international condemnation of Havana's heavy-handed treatment of independent media." Read original article
"The son of the late journalist Santiago Leguizamón confirmed that they received the release that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) considers that the Paraguayan State is responsible for his father's death. On April 26, 1991, he was killed by hitmen in the border town of Pedro Juan Caballero. In March 1991, as a […]
"The UN criticized the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's and other leaders' behavior in relation to the press. In an conference this Friday, when the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was specifically asked about the behavior of the Brazilian president, he answered sending a message to the president of the country and other leaders that […]