"On Monday night [April 15], journalist and political leader Carlos Julio Rojas was detained by individuals who forcibly put him in a vehicle without license plates. Several human rights defenders denounced the situation and his disappearance since no detention center confirmed that he was in custody. Hours later the regime's attorney general, Tarek William Saab, […]
"Nicaraguan journalist Victor Ticay, imprisoned by the government of President Daniel Ortega after covering a religious activity, marked one year in prison on April 6 amid demands from organizations that defend press freedom that he be released. Ticay, originally from Nandaime, a city located about 70 kilometers south of Managua, was arrested on April 6, […]
“Dressed in a black suit, wearing a white shirt and a red tie, this Monday, Feb. 5 journalist José Rubén Zamora attended the opening hearing of the trial against him for the alleged crime of conspiracy to obstruct justice. […] However, the hearing was suspended and postponed to Feb. 20. The reason is that the […]
“A criminal judge in Guatemala found three members of the National Civil Police (PNC, for its acronym in Spanish) guilty this Wednesday [Jan. 31] for the illegal detention of journalist Norma Sancir in 2014. The sentencing judge Jorge Ochoa, of the department (province) of Chiquimula, about 155 miles from Guatemala City, convicted the three police […]
"Agents of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) violently detained journalist Marcelino Humberto Felipa Sebastián, who works for the digital media Chinchanito TV. The incident occurred while the journalist was covering an eviction case in the district of Alto Larán, Chincha, in the region of Ica. It should be noted that the police officers said they […]
"Independent journalist Henry Constantín Ferreiro announced on his social media accounts that he was released on Tuesday [Sept. 19], after five days in the El Vivac detention center in Havana. The journalist from Camagüey was detained in the Cuban capital last Friday, on the occasion of the G77+China Summit, which gathered in that city numerous […]
"The National Union of Press Workers reported on Tuesday night, Sept. 12, that journalist Luis Alejandro Acosta was charged with three crimes during his presentation hearing, after being arrested on Sept. 8 in a mine in the Yapacana national park, in Amazonas state. In a publication, the Union informed that the Public Prosecutor's Office, through […]
"Nine years have passed since journalist Norma Sancir was arrested by the National Civil Police (PNC, by its Spanish acronym) and jailed for five days while covering a community protest in Camotán, Chiquimula [Guatemala]. Three agents and a commissioner are now being prosecuted for abuse of authority. The defense has maintained a strategy of delaying […]
“On May 19, prosecutors accused Víctor Ticay, a correspondent for the Nicaraguan TV station Canal 10, of treason and cybercrime, according to multiple news reports. He has been held at a police station in Managua, the capital, since he was arrested while covering an Easter celebration on April 6. [...] Those news reports said that […]
"A Guatemalan judge ordered this Tues., Sept. 13, to release without charges journalist Carlos Choc, who had been accused of instigating violence during a demonstration in 2021. Judge Aníbal Arteaga [...] dismissed the accusations against Choc. The judge said there was insufficient evidence to support the accusation made by the Guatemalan Public Prosecutor's Office (MP, […]