"Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya announced Monday that she is giving up hope for justice for the kidnapping and rape she was the victim of in 2000 by paramilitaries in a Bogota prison because there is no progress in the case, which she said is heading towards impunity. 'My aspiration for justice has died,' Bedoya said […]
"The trial for the 1982 murder of four Dutch journalists—Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen, and Hans ter Laag—scheduled for April 23 has been suspended following a request by the attorney for Col. Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, who informed the court that her client was undergoing surgery and would be unable to attend. The judge […]
"The brothers of two of four Dutch journalists murdered by the army of El Salvador in 1982 demanded justice on Tuesday [April 22], on the eve of the final phase of the trial against three former military chiefs. Cornelius Kuiper Joop, Koos Jacobus Andries Koster, Hans Lodewijk ter Laag and Jan Willemsen were killed in […]
“Day after day, journalists report on the violence crisis gripping Haiti, playing a dual role as both victims and witnesses on the ground. The Caribbean nation ranks as the country most likely to allow the murder of journalists to go unpunished, according to a 2024 report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In March, […]
"On the 44th anniversary of the murder of journalist Marcelino Vega, who was killed while covering a protest by Santo Domingo city hall employees, on April 7, 1981, news organizations condemn the indifference to crimes against the press that have gone unpunished. The Dominican College of Journalists (CDP for its initials in Spanish) and the […]
"Carlos Gerardo Sánchez Mendoza, alias 'El 02,' and alleged criminal who was accused of participating in the murder of Zitácuaro journalist Armando Linares López, was released yesterday by the criminal control judge, Wilfrido Tapia López, who issued an acquittal sentence. Until noon on Thursday [March 6], the Supreme Court of Justice of the State of […]
On the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, UNESCO calls on all states to fulfill their commitments and put an end to impunity for the murders of journalists. A new UNESCO report highlights the continued high rate of impunity in journalist murders: 85% of all murders recorded by the […]
Haiti tops the 2024 Global Impunity Index, published annually by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The index measures unsolved journalist murders relative to a country’s population. In addition to Haiti, which appears on the index for the second time, Mexico and Brazil are also on the 2024 list, respectively ranking eighth and eleventh. According […]
"On Tuesday [Aug. 13], the 25th anniversary of the murder of Colombian journalist and comedian Jaime Garzón, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) pays tribute to him and urges an end to impunity in the case, which has not brought to justice all those implicated in his murder. The IAPA remembers the popular journalist and […]
"Relatives of the members of the journalistic team from Ecuadoran newspaper El Comercio who were abducted and murdered in 2018 by a Colombian dissident group of the FARC, denounced this Friday [May 17] that the Ecuadoran government gave them incomplete secret minutes of the Public and State Security Council (COSEPE, for its acronym in Spanish) […]
“Nine years after the murder of journalist Moisés Sánchez in Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz, the short film ‘El Último Viaje’ (The final trip) and a special printed edition of Diario La Unión were presented. The shocking almost four-minute short film, made by Grey México and Oriental Films, recounts the last days of Moisés Sánchez's life […]
“This week, the Tenth Specialized Criminal Court of Bogotá continued the public trial hearing against the former director of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS, for its acronym in Spanish), José Miguel Narváez, for crimes against humanity perpetrated against Claudia Julieta Duque. During the hearing, the accused rejected his responsibility as the main person implicated […]