Corruption and Crime

Unidentified individuals set fire to the home of critical journalist Jeso Carneiro on Sunday night in the northern city of Santarém. No one was injured but the house suffered considerable damage. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Brazilian authorities to investigate the attack and provide the necessary protection to allow Carneiro to continue working without...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned condemns the murder of reporter Soran Mama Hama of the fortnightly magazine Leven, who was gunned down on July 21 outside his home in Kirkuk, in the northern region of Kurdistan. His colleagues said he had received threats about articles he had written on sensitive subjects. "We call on the Kurdistan authorities to carry out a thorough investigation...

In what could be a setback to the campaign for legal protection of journalists under threat, the Manila Court of Appeals denied on June 27 a petition for a writ of amparo filed by an Oriental Mindoro-based journalist, according to the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR). Oriental Mindoro is a province approximately 140 km south of Manila. In a 21-page decision penned by Associate...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Philippine government to fully investigate the shooting death of Robert "Bert" Sison Tuesday in Sariaya town, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Manila. Sison reported for the weekly Regional Bulletin, which has published articles on crime and stories critical of local officials. Sison, 60, was shot in his car by two unidentified gunmen...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed shock at the wave of violence in the northern state of Chihuahua that has cost the life of Candelario Pérez Pérez, a 32-year-old journalist who worked as an editor on his father's crime magazine, Sucesos. Pérez was gunned down in the border town of Ciudad Juárez on June 23. The motive for the murder is not yet known. "So far there is no evidence of a...

Rafael Velasco Salas, deputy director of the bimonthly publication Zona Norte and correspondent in Chiapas for the Oaxaca-based newspaper Noticias, Voz e Imagen, was assaulted and threatened with murder by Humberto Cernuda Hernández, brother of Josefa Cernuda - the president of the Family Services Unit (Desarrollo Integral de la Familia, DIF) of the city of Pichucalco in the state of Chiapas...

Ecuadorian journalist Raúl Rodríguez Coronel was shot to death this morning in Guayaquil, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ is investigating all possible links between Rodríguez’s work as a journalist and his death. Rodríguez, news vice president and host of the daily news and opinion programme “Buenos Días Ecuador” (Good Morning Ecuador) on the Guayaquil...

Two unidentified men beat and stabbed Luis Pablo Guardado Negrete, deputy director of the local daily Noticias de la Bahía, on Saturday afternoon inside his office in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the local authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, two men arrived at the...

Two unidentified men beat and stabbed Luis Pablo Guardado Negrete, deputy director of the local daily Noticias de la Bahía, on Saturday afternoon inside his office in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the local authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, two men arrived at the...

Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, whose residence was searched by Mexican military personnel in May 2008 and who has subsequently been harassed by members of the Army, has sought asylum in the United States, fearing for his life and that of his son. The correspondent for the regional newspaper El Diario del Noroeste in Ascensión, a municipality in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, Gutiérrez...