The case represents a rare challenge to a senior military commander and comes after journalists pressured authorities to take action.
Journalists who fled Guatemala after being targeted for covering their former boss’s trial can now return following court rulings. But they worry the forces that drove them into exile are still in place.
Freedom of expression advocates say the cases against one of Guatemala’s most prominent journalists are in retaliation for his investigations into corruption.
President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella takes office with a history of legal battles against journalists who have questioned him.
The Center for Investigative Journalism has gone to court more than 50 times and pried open government files on deaths, missing persons and other public records.
La Nación, a newspaper that reported on sexual harassment claims against ex-president Rodrigo Chaves, had faced sustained scrutiny from his administration.
The former Peruvian spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos was sentenced to 20 years for a 1991 letter bomb that killed Melissa Alfaro, but the acquittal of the man accused of making and sending it is likely to prompt an appeal from her family.
After three months in prison, journalism student Omario Castellanos was released along with dozens of other journalists. Activists say Venezuela’s new amnesty law buries evidence of repression instead of addressing it.
Lawmakers voted to eliminate arrest penalties from a century-old press law, but some journalists remain saddled with complaints and fines. “Legally, I’m as good as dead,” one said.
The director of former newspaper elPeriódico faces multiple criminal charges in cases international and national organizations criticize as flawed and politically motivated.
A Salvadoran court sentenced three former officers to 15 years in prison for ordering an ambush that killed four Dutch journalists during the civil war. It’s the first time a crime of humanity documented by the UN Truth Commission has led to a conviction in El Salvador.
Claudia Duque has spent two decades fighting for justice after being spied on and threatened by government agents. So now that the state is finally offering an apology, why is she refusing to accept it?