“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 […]
“The agents belong to a squad created by president Nicolás Maduro and of which the High Commissioner of the UN for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, had demanded last year its dissolution due to multiple denouncements of human rights violations. Six agents of the Special Action Force (FAES) of Venezuela were arrested after the killing of […]
"Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publishes alarming data about journalists who work in environmental topics: at least ten of them have been killed and more than 50 violations of freedom of the press related to this topic have been registered in less than five years in the world." Read original article (Spanish)
“The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed concern and urged the Colombian government to investigate the murder of a journalist and the reports of attacks and threats against other reporters, registered in recent months. On August 13, Abelardo Liz of the Nación Nasa Estéreo radio station in the municipality of Corinto, in northern Cauca, was […]