Tag: press freedom

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Shaky weekend as Santiago mourned slain reporter

  

  Riots rocked the Chilean capital city of Santiago as protesters demanded justice for slain reporter Francisca Sandoval, who died recently after being fatally shot while covering the May 1 Labor Day demonstrations.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Poor performance of South American countries in the World Press Freedom Index

  

  South American countries have not rated very well in the latest edition of the World Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders, RSF, which assesses the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories. Half of the countries are in the upper half of the 180 list, while the rest in the lower half; among the first are Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, while Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela among the worst. To have an idea UK rates 24 and the US 42.

• Wednesday, May 4th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Killing of journalists on the rise in Haiti - UN concerned

  

  Haiti's crisis includes the murder of 19 journalists since 2000, three of them this year, according to the United Nations Integrated Office, which has also called for local authorities to act accordingly since these crimes systematically remain unpunished.

• Thursday, December 9th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  IAPA condemns journalist's arrest by Cuba's regime

  

  The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) Wednesday expressed its support for Cuban journalist Claudia Montero, who has been accused by the Government of President Miguel Díaz-Canel of causing “public disorder.”

• Thursday, November 25th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Peru's President not a stalwart of freedom of the press, Human Rights Watch claims

  

  The Washington DC-based Human Rights Watch organization Wednesday said Peru's President Pedro Castillo Terrones undermined freedom of expression after the head of state threatened to withdraw all state advertising from media outlets.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  EU hits back at Belarus for hijacking of Ryanair flight

  

  The European Union seems determined not to let Sunday's incident at Minsk airport go by and is pressing for harsh sanctions against the regime of Belarussian leader Aleksander Lukashenko, starting with a ban on all Belarussian aircraft to fly through EU skies.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2021 - 10:30 UTC

  Uruguay leads freedom of press in South America; Brazil falls down to red zone in RSF ratings

  

  With no South American country among the top 12, the Non-Government Organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF - the acronym for Reporters sans frontières) Monday lowered Brazil's freedom of the press rankings to 111th, thus placing it within the red zone.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  BBC World News barred from China in retaliation for UK revoking Beijing's CGTN network

  

  Chinese regulators have accused the UK's global broadcaster of breaking China's media code. The move follows the decision by UK authorities to revoke the license for China's global state TV network CGTN.

• Tuesday, December 29th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  China censorship: four-year jail term for journalist who reported on the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan

  

  A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” her lawyer said.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Brazilian reporters withdraw from presidential palace coverage because of attacks by Bolsonaro followers

  

  Brazil's four largest news media outlets said they have withdrawn their reporters from coverage of President Jair Bolsonaro's official residence due to the lack of security to protect them from heckling and abuse by his supporters.