More journalists killed in Latin America and Caribbean than Ukraine in 2022
Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide More journalists were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean...
Category : Journalist safety
Brazilian police name alleged ‘mastermind’ behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Police chief says Rubens Villar Coelho, whose nickname is Colômbia, ordered the murders of the British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert Brazilian police have named...
Prominent Cameroon journalist found dead after abduction
Martinez Zogo’s kidnapping is the latest in a string of attacks against journalists in the African country The mutilated body of a prominent Cameroonian journalist...
As independent media blossoms in Cuba, journalists face a crackdown
‘Chilling’ new criminal law penalizing internationally funded journalism comes as repression in the country is on the rise Since graduating from the University of Havana’s...
Six journalists arrested over footage of South Sudan president wetting himself
State broadcaster’s staff held on suspicion of disseminating the clip of Salva Kiir at official event Six journalists have been detained by South Sudan security...
Mexico media say president’s attacks on journalists are ‘invitation to violence’
Open letter calls on Andrés Manuel López Obrador to rein in rhetoric or risk ‘even bloodier era’ of deadly violence against press Mexico could be...
Pakistani journalist’s killing in Kenya ‘a pre-meditated murder’
Fact-finding team sent by Pakistani government finds contradictions in reports on Arshad Sharif’s death A team set up by the Pakistani government to investigate the...
Pakistani journalist killed by police in Kenya ‘was case of mistaken identity’
Police say Arshad Sharif was shot after his car failed to halt at a roadblock near Nairobi A senior Pakistani journalist living in hiding in...
Bail granted to suspect in Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira murder case
Rubens Villar Coelho, suspected of ‘leading and financing’ armed group, to await trial under house arrest A man suspected of involvement in the killing of...
Two Haitian journalists killed while reporting in slum controlled by gangs
Tayson Latigue and Frantzsen Charles were among seven journalists who came under attack on Sunday Two Haitian reporters have been shot dead and their bodies...