"Guatemala’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday confirmed house arrest for journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, accepting a second withdrawal by the Attorney General’s Office of an appeal aimed at returning the elPeriódico founder to prison. The ruling establishes that the challenged decision remains final and in full legal effect, preserving Zamora’s current status under alternative precautionary […]
"A Venezuelan court acquitted journalist Rory Branker on Friday, clearing him of charges including terrorism, conspiracy, treason, and criminal association following a legal ordeal that kept him detained for nearly a year until his release last February, the National Press Workers Union (SNTP) reported. 'The Second Trial Court with jurisdiction over terrorism issued an acquittal […]
"Prosecutor Katia Atencio refused to impose precautionary measures to prevent the newspaper La Prensa and its associate deputy director, Rolando Rodríguez, from investigating and reporting on the business activities of Vicente Carretero Napolitano. Atencio noted that Rodríguez's articles contain no elements constituting intimidation, harassment, retaliation, or pressure against Carretero. She further observed that the news […]
“After seven years of pressure, false accusations and a long legal battle, an Argentine court on Thursday [Sept. 3] definitively dismissed the case against Clarín journalist Daniel Santoro, who had been accused of being part of an alleged network of spies and extortionists seeking to implicate then-President Cristina Kirchner in corruption cases. Federal Judge Julián […]
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) announced Monday [Aug. 10] that it had begun reviewing public allegations of threats and interference against the judge overseeing the criminal case against Roosevelt Hernández, the former head of the Armed Forces [of Honduras], who is accused of offenses related to freedom of expression. The investigation was announced by the […]
"The Second Court of Appeals has annulled, for the second time, the 2023 conviction of journalist José Rubén Zamora and ordered a new trial before the Ninth Criminal Sentencing Tribunal. The resolution complies with an October 2025 order by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), which had returned the case file […]
“Supreme Deputy Prosecutor Edward Casaverde has accused journalist Gustavo Gorriti, director of IDL-Reporteros, of committing the crime of specific active bribery. According to a report Casaverde submitted to Attorney General Tomás Gálvez, Gorriti allegedly used his ties to prosecutors Rafael Vela and José Domingo Pérez to steer the Cocteles Case, an investigation in which President-elect […]
A prosecutor in the town of Yapacaní, Santa Cruz, considered intimidating messages against journalist Soledad Prado insufficient to prosecute two people for the crime of issuing threats. The messages were published on the Facebook page of ‘InfoYapacaní,’ which Prado manages, after the journalist published information regarding the responsibility of some followers of former President Evo […]
"If you look closely at the threats facing Guatemalan journalists, one name repeatedly emerges: the Foundation Against Terrorism (FCT). Due to its intensifying abusive legal proceedings and online hate campaigns, the organisation has become emblematic of the repression targeting people who fight corruption, including journalists. Since 2022, the FCT has played a central role in […]
“The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, for its initials in Spanish) rejects the decision by Bogotá’s Fourth Criminal Court for Adolescents with Trial Jurisdiction ordering news outlet Cerosetenta to remove in its entirety an investigative report about a public figure. The ruling constitutes a disproportionate restriction on freedom of expression and press freedom because it […]
"On June 12, 2026, [Peru's] Congress approved the report of an investigative commission regarding the effective collaboration agreement signed in 2019 between the Peruvian State and the Brazilian company Odebrecht, which had confessed to paying bribes to secure public works contracts. The report recommends that the Public Prosecutor's Office initiate criminal proceedings against journalist Gustavo […]
"State prosecutors charged a journalist with terrorism over his reporting. A court ordered a columnist to delete an article linking a candidate to criminal networks. A judge barred a newspaper from mentioning a governor unless its content was reviewed by a court monitor. These examples from the past year are part of a rising trend […]