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Mexican journalist María Teresa Montaño to receive CPJ's International Press Freedom Award 2023

"The Committee to Protect Journalists [CPJ] will celebrate four extraordinary journalists from Georgia, India, Mexico, and Togo with its 2023 International Press Freedom Awards. […] María Teresa Montaño (México) is a prominent investigative reporter […]. Her journalism features investigations of corruption, transparency, gender violence, and accountability. […] In 2021, in retaliation for her reporting, she […]

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Peru: Far-right groups escalate violence against offices of IDL-Reporteros news outlet

"Two days after the publication of an investigation that stopped a campaign based on slanderous disinformation against news website IDL-R director, Gustavo Gorriti and newspaper La República director Gustavo Mohme, the ultra-right-wing groups known as 'La Pestilencia' [the Pestilence] violently attacked the offices of IDL-Reporteros on Friday night [May 5], which represented the fourth attack […]

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NGO to file injunction in El Salvador's Supreme Court over spying on journalists via Pegasus spyware

"The humanitarian organization Cristosal will file an amparo [injunction] lawsuit with the Supreme Court of El Salvador for failing to investigate the use of state funds for allegedly spying on journalists via Pegasus spyware, one of the organization's lawyers said on Friday (April 28). [Attorney] Jonathan Sisco said that 'we are preparing an amparo lawsuit, […]

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Attacks and vandalism against journalists covering protests in Suriname

“The Association of Surinamese Journalists (ASJ) has strongly condemned the looting, vandalism and attacks on journalists during and after the protests against the Surinamese government on Friday (Feb. 17). […] According to the ASJ – it is a sign on the wall of the country falling into anarchy when independent journalists have suffered in the […]

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After a tragic year for the press in Latin America, organizations in the region call on states to create conditions for violence-free journalism

"2022 has been the most violent year for the press in Latin America and the Caribbean for the last two decades. During the last eleven months, at least 37 journalists have been murdered in connection with their work. Additionally, dozens of journalists have been exiled, imprisoned; hundreds of journalists are still missing, while dozens of […]

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'There is no possible way to leave us voiceless,' Cuban journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa said upon receiving the 2022 CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award

"Independent reporter Abraham Jiménez Enoa received on Thu. Nov. 17 the International Press Freedom Award granted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The Cuban journalist, the only Latin American nominated this year, dedicated the award to his colleagues Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca and Jorge Bello Domínguez, currently imprisoned on the island, during his thank […]

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In Mexico, there are 50% more murders of journalists with AMLO than with Peña Nieto and Calderón: Article 19

"For the civil organization Article 19 there is no doubt: the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is already the most violent against journalists and the media since records have been kept. This was stated this Tuesday, April 5, at a press conference held by Leopoldo Maldonado, director of the organization that defends […]

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The dangers of the 'Ingrid Law': It could clash with freedom of expression and information in Mexico

"The Chamber of Deputies celebrated the approval of the Ingrid Law as a historic advance for the rights of victims and against the re-victimization of women who suffer femicide. All parties approved last week for the first time a reform to the Penal Code that punishes with up to 10 years in prison the dissemination […]