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Peru: Fujimori's trial for journalist's 1991 murder postponed

"Peru's Judiciary postponed the start of the trial scheduled for this Thursday for the death of young journalist Melisa Alfaro, who died in 1991 due to the explosion of an envelope bomb, allegedly prepared by the Army Intelligence Service, during the government of then President Alberto Fujimori (...) In October 1991, Alfaro was 23 years […]

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Prosecutor's office in charge of investigating murders of journalists in Mexico dismisses 68% of cases because of finding no relation with their line of work in news media

"68.1% of the murders of journalists are dismissed by the Special Prosecutor's Office for Attention to Crimes Committed against Freedom of Expression (Feadle) [of Mexico], because in its investigations it did not find any relation with the news media work. This federal agency was created on July 5, 2010. Since then and until April 30, […]

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Remains of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, shot to death in the Brazilian Amazon, identified

"Forensic analysis confirmed on Sat. June 18, that the second body found on Wed. June 15 in the Amazon is that of Bruno Pereira, a 41-year-old father of three children. The day before, British journalist Dom Phillips, 57, a contributor to The Guardian newspaper who had been living in Brazil for 15 years, was identified. […]

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Chilean journalist dies 12 days after being shot during Workers' Day demonstration

"Francisca Sandoval, journalist for Signal 3 of La Victoria, passed away this Thursday morning [May 12]. The journalist was in serious condition at the Public Assistance Emergency Hospital (ex-Posta Central). This, after being shot in the Meiggs neighborhood [in Santiago, Chile] during a march for Workers' Day (May 1). The journalist entered the hospital on […]

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Killing of Luis Enrique Ramírez is the ninth murder of a journalist this year in Mexico

"The body of Mexican journalist Luis Enrique Ramírez was found this Thursday (May 5) next to a highway in Culiacán, the capital of the state of Sinaloa in Mexico, one day after he was reported missing. (...) Ramírez's homicide is the ninth against the Mexican press in 2022, a particularly violent year against the country's […]

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Brazil: Trial for radio host Valério Luiz’s murder postponed for third time due to the defense walking out

"The defense of former vice president of the Atlético Goianiense soccer club Maurício Sampaio walked out this Monday (May 2) from the plenary session of the Court of Justice of Goiás (TJ-GO). This caused the third suspension of the jury session that will prove the guilt or innocence of those suspected of having killed journalist […]

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‘A never-ending nightmare’: A son’s decade-long fight for justice for murdered Brazilian sports journalist

"On July 5, 2012, Valério Luiz de Oliveira Filho was at home waiting for his father to arrive for lunch when he received a phone call from his stepmother. 'Go to the broadcaster,' she told him through tears, he said. 'Your father has been shot.' His father, Valério Luiz de Oliveira, a well-known sports journalist […]

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IAPA warns of wave of violence 'never seen before' against journalists in Latin America

"The panorama of freedom of the press in Latin America has only worsened, with a 'sharpening of the repression' of independent journalism and 'violence' against journalists, Ricardo Trotti, executive director of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), said. IAPA will hold its semi-annual meeting from next Tuesday to Thursday. […] In these first three months of […]

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UNP declares a Day of Mourning for Ecuadorian Journalism on the anniversary of the murder of journalists from El Comercio

"The National Union of Journalists of Ecuador declared this Friday, April 8, 2022, as the Mourning Day of Ecuadorian Journalism. The organization commemorates this date in tribute to Javier Ortega, Efraín Segarra and Paúl Rivas, the journalistic team of EL COMERCIO, who was kidnapped and killed by dissidents on the northern border. During a commemorative […]