"A former senator and a former mayor, along with five others, have been accused of murdering journalist Néhémie Joseph five years ago in a town in central Haiti. Judge Edwige Dorsainvil ordered pretrial detention for former legislator Rony Célestin, former mayor Lochard Laguerre, and Juste Chandou Clerjeune, Elionel Casséus, Angelina Fabiola Cameau, Douyon Rosevald, and […]
"This Friday, May 3, the president [of Chile] Gabriel Boric led the inauguration of the 31st World Press Freedom Day Conference at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center. During his speech, two of the attendees rebuked him, remembering the case of Francisca Sandoval, a reporter for Diseño 3 de La Victoria, murdered on May 1, 2022 […]
“Fifty journalists from Morelos [Mexico] demonstrated at the wreath for the victims of violence, which is at one of the entrances to the state palace, to condemn the illegal deprivation of liberty and murder of the communicator and internet content producer Roberto Figueroa Bustos. In this act of protest, Jaime Luis Brito, correspondent for Proceso, […]
“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 […]
"Jaime Vásquez, a Colombian social leader and journalist, was murdered this Sunday morning [April 14] in [the neighborhood] La Riviera, [in the city of] Cúcuta. Images from security cameras show the moment in which he was attacked by hitmen, with three fatal shots. [...] President Gustavo Petro condemned the murder and asked prosecutor's to carry […]
"This Wednesday (April 3), the Amnesty Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília unanimously approved the recognition of Clarice Herzog as a political amnesty. The widow of journalist Vladimir Herzog, tortured and killed on Oct. 25, 1975 by agents of the former DOI-CODI (Department of Information Operations - Center for Internal Defense Operations) in […]
“ARTICLE 19 Office for Mexico and Central America and the Network in Memory and Fight of Murdered or Missing Journalists commemorate María Elena Ferral, a journalist from Veracruz, and renew their demands for justice for her and her family four years after her murder. […] Although the Attorney General's Office of the State of Veracruz […]
"The October 2022 murder [of Haitian journalist Garry Tesse] sparked outrage and street protests. But the investigation into the death […] has languished, leading his family and friends to accuse the government of a cover-up to protect the man who is in charge of prosecuting the crime, Ronald Richemond. […] Shortly before his death, Tesse […]
“After three weeks in silence due to the murder of journalist Mardonio Mejía, which occurred on Jan. 24, Sonora Stéreo returned to the air. The only station in San Pedro, Sucre, resumed its musical programming on Feb. 5, the day on which Angélica Mejía, Mardonio's eldest daughter, paid tribute to her father and addressed words […]
“The night of Dec. 17, 1986 left an open wound in the history of Colombian journalism. That day Guillermo Cano, former director of El Espectador, was murdered by hitmen linked to the Medellín Cartel. Within the framework of Journalist's Day and 37 years later, the Colombian State apologized for the incident and recognized its responsibility […]
"Two weeks ago, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, journalist Mardonio Mejía Mendoza was murdered in San Pedro, Sucre [Colombia]. Since then, Sonora Estéreo 94.3 FM, the community radio station where he was manager and journalist, and the only one in the municipality, shut down. His murder brought an unprecedented silence to this town in the Sucre […]
“A sentence of 76 years and 4 months in prison was handed down.. against José Carlos 'N', Jorge Alberto 'N', and Adán Isaac 'N' for their participation in the homicide of journalist Reynaldo López and the attempted homicide of Carlos Andrés López, in addition to criminal association. This ruling comes after a detailed investigation and […]