"On the World Press Freedom Day, journalist Benjamín Morales Hernández, director of the Xonoidag News page, was found dead and with gunshot wounds. A police report indicates that at 01:55 hours yesterday [May 3] his vehicle was located with the keys in the ignition in the vicinity of the Morelia ejido in the municipality of […]
"Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores the extremely tense climate for journalists in Brazil after a series of press freedom violations in recent weeks, including the murders of two journalists. The authorities must punish those responsible and protect media personnel throughout the country, RSF says. [...] Weverton Rabelo Fróes, 32, a radio show host and humourist […]
“Three years ago, Ecuadoran President Lenín Moreno confirmed the deaths of Javier Ortega, Paúl Rivas and Efraín Segarra, journalistic team of the newspaper El Comercio. During these years, the Colombian State has repeatedly failed the families of the victims. Truth, justice and reparation are absent in this case. The [Colombian] Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, […]
"Washington, D.C. - On February 13, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) referred the case of Santiago Leguizamón Zaván and family, regarding Paraguay, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The case refers to the death of Santiago Leguizamón on April 26, 1991, an important and well-known journalist and human rights defender from […]
“The National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI, for its acronym in Spanish) instructed the Attorney General of the Republic [of Mexico] to provide the public version of the investigation folder for the homicide of journalist Regina Martínez, who was assassinated on April 28, 2012, when she was a […]
“Ecuavisa presenter, Efraín Ruales, was murdered on the morning of Jan. 27 while he was driving from the gym he attends to his home, located in Samborondón. Fundamedios condemns this crime against a journalist and demands the authorities are forceful in their actions. Once again it is revealed that there is no security policy for […]
“On Jan. 6 of this year, Jorge Sánchez – the son of Moisés Sánchez, a journalist who disappeared and was murdered in 2015 – received notification of the reinstatement of criminal proceedings of police officers who were already sentenced in 2018 for the crime of failure to comply in the course of duty and for co-participation […]
“Media outlet San José Total reported through social networks about the death of the communicator at dawn this Saturday [Nov. 14], after the journalist spent four days in critical condition due to being shot on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 10. Mario Ortega was hospitalized after the attack on Tuesday in Puerto San José, [department […]
“Journalist Israel Vázquez Rangel died after being shot in the municipality of Salamanca, [state of] Guanajuato, while reporting. According to the first reports, the attack took place on [Nov. 9] Monday morning in colonia Villa Salamanca 400, where the journalist went after hearing a report on the discovery of human remains. When Israel was preparing […]
"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 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)