Corruption and Crime

Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of killing radio reporter Francisco Gomes de Medeiros in the city of Caicó, state of Rio Grande do Norte, local press reports said. Gomes was shot to death Monday in front of his house. The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the arrest and calls on Brazilian authorities to prosecute all those responsible to the full extent of the law. A...

The motive for the fatal shooting of journalist and local free newspaper owner Wanderley dos Reis during an armed intrusion in his home in Ibitinga, in São Paulo state, on the evening of October 16 is still unknown, but the testimony of Moisés Fernandes da Silva, 20, who shared his house and who was present during the intrusion, may still shed light on the case, according to Paris-based press...

A Slovenian journalist was allegedly threatened with death on October 10 by a prominent Ljubljana-based businessman after investigating his company, the journalist told the International Press Institute on Thursday. Jaka Elikan, a reporter for Slovene business daily Finance, had been conducting investigations into Electa, a company owned by Jure Jankovic, son of Ljubljana mayor Zoran Jankovic...

Mexican journalists in the drug-violence-wracked city of Ciudad Juarez called on Mexican President Felipe Calderon on October 12 to take action against the climate of impunity shrouding attacks on journalists, joining calls made by freedom of expression groups last month. In an open letter to the president, who was visiting the northern Mexican city, the Association of Journalists of Ciudad Juárez...

Víctor Hugo Juárez, a journalist and businessman who owned two online media, Wanima News and Guatemala Empresarial, was found murdered on September 27 at the home of a friend, Byron Dávila Díaz, who was also killed. The news agency Cerigua said both men appeared to have been tortured and strangled. The motive is not yet known. Juárez had worked for two dailies, Siglo XXI and Nuestro Diario, in the...

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) has condemned the second bomb attack at the house of Caslav Milisavljevic, editor-in-chief of Radio Kosovska Mitrovica, in the Kosovo municipality of Zvecan. According to information received by SEEMO, during the early morning hours of September 27, an explosive device was thrown in the courtyard of Milisavljevic's house. During this attack, the car...

The largest newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city has decided to restrict its coverage of the ongoing drugs war after one of its photographers was shot dead. In an editorial printed on the front page of Sunday’s edition, El Diario newspaper, in Ciudad Juárez, asked “What do you want of us?” Directed at the drug cartels, the editorial said: “We ask you to explain what you want from us, what we...

Two photographers were shot by unidentified gunmen in a brazen attack Thursday afternoon in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, the New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. One photographer died, and the other was injured. Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, a photographer with the daily El Diario died around 2:45 p.m. after he and an unidentified...

Unidentified assailants stabbed reporter Adams Ledesma Valenzuela to death in an impoverished neighbourhood in Buenos Aires on Saturday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local and international press. Ledesma, 41, a Bolivian-born reporter for the community weekly newspaper Mundo Villa and director of local TV station Mundo Villa, was found stabbed to death around 4...

Barely 30 hours after an attack by armed assailants on the Noroeste newspaper building in Mazatlán, the newspaper has received a new threat from an unidentified caller demanding that it pay approximately US$15,000 in exchange for not "blowing up" its offices, the Centre for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) has reported. Directors at Noroeste said that at around 10:40 a.m. on September 2, a...