"Journalist Alex Braga was beaten up on the night of 23.20.2020, after having his car hit by another vehicle, in the Flores neighborhood, in Manaus (AM). He is the host of the news show Amazonas Diário, from Grupo Diário de Comunicação (GDC), in which he criticizes the state government." Read the full article (in Portuguese).
"Media workers from different media outlets denounced the aggression suffered on Thursday by a media van from outside the C5N channel, when it covered the protest for 'freedom and the republic' in the Federal Capital (of Argentina). A group of protesters gathered to reject the national government's measures in relation to the coronavirus pandemic, attacked […]
"A Nation photojournalist was attacked and killed this afternoon by an unknown assailant while covering the death of an unidentified victim on the heavily wooded grounds of Bishop’s Court...Photographer Christoff Griffith was confirmed by police as having been killed on the scene...Barbados TODAY understands that workers on the site of the ruins removing asbestos may have […]
"In less than 24 hours, the body of the journalist Alma García was located inside a hotel in Cajeme, Sonora, and the reporter José Castillo was found dead outside his home in the Ciudad Obregón municipality, in the same state. José Castillo, a reporter for the media outlet 'Prioridad Máxima,' was assassinated this Thursday morning […]
"Wilson Acosta Marques, alleged material author in the murder of Paraguayan journalist Pablo Medina and his assistant Antonia Almada, which occurred in October 2014, was captured by Brazilian authorities in the state of Mato Grosso, about 1,000 kilometers from Amambay, as confirmed by Interpol Paraguay...The man detained was the one who wielded and fired the […]
"The State Attorney General arrested Omar Alfredo A.O. alias 'El Fredy,' another priority objective for the authorities of the three levels of government, who is linked to at least 50 homicides that occurred in the cities of Juárez and Chihuahua ... 'El Fredy' is credited with orchestrating an assault armed against one of his 'opponents,' […]
"María Fernanda de Luna, daughter of the journalist María Elena Ferral, murdered last March in the Mexican state of Veracruz (east), denounced this Sunday that she was the victim of an armed attack, from which she was unharmed. 'Today at 10:40 in the morning (15:00 GMT), I was the victim of an attack in which […]
"A federal judge convicted Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa, El Larry or El WA, of being a co-participant in the murder of journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, correspondent for La Jornada in Chihuahua, on March 23, 2017. El Larry was arrested in December 2017 by elements of the Federal Police in an operation carried out in Etchojoa, […]
"The Colombian National Protection Unit announced that it would be suspending the country’s Risk Assessment and Protection Measures Recommendation Committee, which grants protective measures to journalists, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic." Read original article
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights approved the Reparation Agreement between the Colombian state and the Inter-American Press Association, IAPA, after claiming Colombia's international responsibility for the murder of journalist and columnist Gerardo Bedoya Borrero that occurred in Cali, Colombia on March 21, 1997." Read original article (Spanish)