"Journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa, correspondent in Havana for The Washington Post newspaper, was summoned this Thursday morning by Lieutenant Colonel Kenia Morales for an 'interview,' in which he was threatened with jail if he continues his collaboration with the U.S. media outlet." Read original article (in Spanish)
"The verbal fight between two rival political groups in the Plaza 14 de Septiembre in the city of Cochabamba, on Thursday, Sept. 24, ended in a pitched battle and assault on journalists who were covering the news. Edwin Soria, journalist for the Univalle television channel, suffered first and second degree burns on his left hand […]
"The Special Prosecutor's Office for Crimes committed against Freedom of Expression (Feadle) of Mexico requested this Tuesday a sentence of 50 years in prison for one of those accused of the murder of journalist Javier Valdez, which occurred on May 15, 2017 . In a hearing held after a 20-month delay, Feadle formalized its accusation […]
"This Monday morning, Honduran journalist Luis Alfonso Almendares (35) died after being the victim of a criminal attack that occurred while he broadcasted via Facebook Live in Comayagua, in the central area of the country." Read the original article (in Spanish)
"The Attorney General's Office of Colombia pronounced this Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, about the liberation of two defendants for murder of the journalistic team of the daily El Comercio. The entity questioned that "due to the congestion registered by the Criminal Court of Tumaco (Nariño)," Gustavo Alfonso Ospina and Gustavo Angulo Arboleda have been released. […]
"Journalists from the television stations Columbia, Repretel and Teletica were verbally and physically attacked on Aug. 25 while covering a protest held by Movimiento Rescate Nacional against the sanitary measures to contain the propagation of COVID-19, in San Jose, Costa Rica. The reporter Alejandro Arley, of Noticias Columbia, spoke about his experience on the Por […]
"Organizations and human rights defenders in Guatemala issued an alert this Wednesday about the detention of an indigenous journalist accused of 'sedition' in the north of the country and for an attack on two other female communicators in another incident that occurred in the west of the territory." Read the original article (in Spanish)
"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)