Corruption and Crime

Spanish journalist Paco Gomez Nadal was arrested in Panama City in one of the protests staged around the country, mainly by Indian groups, against the reform of the mining law, the government said, according to the Latin American Herald Tribune. “The National Police arrested foreigner Francisco Gomez Nadal at a time when he was instigating and organizing a group of citizens who were preparing to...

The European Federation of Journalists has condemned a gun attack and death threat to the Turkish Cypriot newspaper Africa and its editor Sener Levent on Friday evening. The attack shocked the island’s media community and prompted trade unions and journalists’ groups in both Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities to join together to vigorously protest over this latest act of intimidation against...

Some local courts in Brazil are permitting the use of multiple lawsuits and other abusive judicial procedures to censor journalists, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Carlos Santos, a freelance journalist and blogger based in Mossoró, a town in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, was ordered this month to pay 6,000 reais (2,600 euros) to...

Death threats have been made against Nicaraguan investigative reporter Luis Galeano in the lead-up to the publication of a series of articles on official corruption. Galeano and his colleague José Adán Silva, reporters with the Managua-based daily El Nuevo Diario, had been investigating allegations of embezzlement within Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council, El Nuevo Diario reported. On Saturday...

Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on the Philippines government to move quickly to protect journalists from increasing death threats against those reporting on corruption and environmental abuses, a month after the murder of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) dwAR commentator Gerardo Ortega. It urged President Benigno Aquino III to keep his promise to fight...

Gunmen staged separate attacks on a TV station and a radio station in Torreón, in the northern state of Coahuila on February 9, killing a young engineer, Rodolfo Ochoa, in the attack on Canal 9 (Milenio TV), which is owned by the Multimedios Laguna group. Equipment was destroyed in the attack on the radio station, Radiorama, which has been off the air ever since, according to Paris-based press...

Jean Richard Louis-Charles, a 30-year-old journalist working for Radio Kiskeya, one of Port-au-Prince’s most popular radio stations, was fatally shot twice in the head Wednesday near the capital’s central Champs-de-Mars square, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Another man at the scene, named as Jean Wilner Duperval, was shot dead on the spot by a plain...

A far-right wing group in Uruguay has mounted an Internet attack of intimidation on a journalist who specialises in investigations into the crimes of the dictatorship that ran the country between 1973 and 1985, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The group, calling itself “Freedom and Concord Forum” (Foro Libertad y Concordia), to be found on the social...

Le Hoang Hung an investigative reporter for the newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong (Workers) died in hospital on January 29 from the injuries he received when an intruder sprayed him with chemicals and set fire to him while he was asleep in his home in Tan An, a town near Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, on January 20, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). “We...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Wednesday joined its affiliate in Argentina, the Argentinean Federation of Press Workers (FATPREN), its regional organisation, La Federación de Periodistas de América Latina y el Caribe (FEPALC) and other national organisations to mark the 14th anniversary of the murder of Argentinean photographer José Luis Cabezas and to condemn the impunity...