“The house of Silvia Peraza Azueta, journalist and manager of the online news portal Código Rojo Quintana Roo, was shot at after she filed a report about threats with the state attorney general. At 12:32 a.m. on Tuesday, September 24, the journalist posted a message on the portal’s Facebook page, reporting the attack on her […]
“Bolivia has seen some 82 cases of press freedom violations between January and September 2024, including a recent aggression suffered by journalists covering the march of sectors supporting former president Evo Morales, as denounced on Sept. 19 by the Observatory of Human Rights Defenders of the UNITAS Network. Of the total number, the 'most frequent' […]
“The prosecutor's office accused Freisman Yesid Toro Meléndez, a journalist from the city of Cali in Colombia, of having simulated threats against his life to maintain the security benefits granted by the National Protection Unit. The events occurred on Sept. 28, 2014, when, according to the investigating entity, the communicator created an email from which […]
Following a court decision as part of the lawsuits brought against her by the Peruvian Attorney General's Office, the secrecy of Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz's communications was lifted, according to the Spanish newspaper ABC, of which Ugaz is a correspondent in Lima. The Peruvian court requested from Ugaz's telephone operator all the records of her […]
Two journalists were assaulted during protests involving followers of former president Evo Morales and current president Luis Arce on Tuesday, September 17. The protests escalated into clashes in the community of Vila Vila. A reporter from Cadena A in Oruro was brutally beaten, while another from SEO TV was forced to cut his live broadcast, […]
“Reporter Jesús Medina Ezaine left Venezuela this Sunday, Sept. 15, alleging that the measure of complete freedom he received after a six-year trial will be revoked. Medina Ezaine recorded a video from Colombia, on the border with our country, in which he accuses Judge Shirley Páez; Attorney General Tarek William Saab and Minister of Interior […]
“David Eduardo Martínez Meraz, son of journalist Ernesto Martínez Meraz, was found alive hours after being abducted on Monday [Sept. 16] in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. According to Los Noticieristas, the police reporter confirmed that his son was found safe and sound and that it was apparently a confusion. He also thanked the citizens who collaborated […]
Mexican journalist Humberto Padgett was the victim of an armed robbery on Friday, Sept. 13 in the municipality of Cuitzeo, in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Four unknown individuals pointed long guns at the journalist and took his vehicle, IDs and work equipment, the freedom of expression organization Artículo 19 reported in a thread on […]
"Journalist and Grupo Diario de Morelos radio host Edgar Arroyo was the target of an armed attack in the city of Cuernavaca. He was injured and taken to the hospital, where his condition is reported as stable. The incident took place the night of September 10, when Arroyo was traveling through the Ramón Hernández Navarro […]
"Dalia Villatoro, a journalist from Chiapas [in southern Mexico] who works for media outlets such as Verídico Noticias, publicly denounced being the victim of death threats allegedly linked to an organized crime group that left her un narcomensaje (a threatening message). This is happening as the southeastern border state of Mexico is experiencing a fierce […]
"Police beat at least two journalists and arrested two others during a protest for human rights in Xochimilco, a southern borough of Mexico City, on Thursday, Sept. 5, according to members of the media who witnessed the incidents. Police arrested Penélope Estefanía Galicia Argumedo, a reporter with community radio station Radio Zapote; and Elizabeth Díaz, […]
"[Mexican] President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this Thursday (Sept. 5) that in his government there have been no murders of journalists or politicians 'beyond what the circumstances have caused,' despite the fact that the organization Article 19 has documented 47 homicides of communicators in the six-year period. Questioned during his press conference about the […]