Tag: journalists

• Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 16:42 UTC

  Venezuela: Journalists arrested and deported complied with accreditations

  

  The National Union of Workers of the Press (SNTP) of Venezuela reported that reporters from the Spanish international agency EFE who were detained by the National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) in Caracas will be deported despite fulfilling the necessary papers to carry out his journalistic work.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:31 UTC

  20-year old student confesses to hacking data of hundreds of high-profile Germans

  

  A 20-year-old man has made a “comprehensive” confession that he was behind a data breach affecting hundreds of high-profile Germans, police say. Styling himself “G0d”, he published private information about politicians, journalists, and celebrities on Twitter, under the username @_0rbit.

• Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:05 UTC

  World Press Freedom Day 2018: “Keeping power in Check”

  

  On World Press Freedom Day, United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres made a brief statement saying ”a free press is essential for peace, justice and human rights for all. It is crucial to building transparent and democratic societies and keeping those in power accountable. It is vital for sustainable development.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 21:40 UTC

  Swiss organization says 141 journalists were killed in 2012

  

  A record number of journalists, 141 in 29 different countries, were killed globally in 2012, according to data of the Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), which fights for the protection of journalists. At least 28 of them were killed in Latinamerica.

• Thursday, December 20th 2012 - 06:02 UTC

  Record killing of journalists doing their jobs in 2012, according to RSF

  

  More journalists were killed doing their job in 2012 than in any year since monitoring started 17 years ago, with Syria and Somalia seeing a particularly heavy toll followed by Pakistan and Mexico, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday.

• Saturday, December 31st 2011 - 03:32 UTC

  More than 100 journalists killed in 2011; call on the UN for protection action

  

  More than 100 journalists or other media staffs were killed in 2011, up from last year's toll, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said, calling on UN Secretary General Bank Ki-moon to act to help protect the profession.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Record number of imprisoned journalists in 2011, claims CPJ

  

  The number of journalists jailed around the world increased more than 20% in 2011, mainly because of government crackdowns in the Middle East and North Africa, a nonprofit organization said Thursday.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 17:50 UTC

  IPI calls for Latam authorities to protect 12 journalists that received death threats

  

  The International Press Institute warned in Vienna of the dangerous situation that twelve Latin American journalists are undergoing having received death threats, and called con authorities to take measures and avoid further killings.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 21:30 UTC

  UNESCO drafts action plan to improve journalists’ safety and punish instigators

  

  Participants at a UN forum that met in Paris have drafted an action plan to improve the safety of journalists and ensure that crimes committed against them do not go unpunished.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 04:56 UTC

  Organized crime and authoritarian rulers, main threat for journalists in the Americas

  

  Organized crime and authoritarian governments have become the main enemies for freedom of expression in the Americas said Gonzalo Marroquin, president of the Inter American Press Association.