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CPJ Demands Release of Guatemala Reporter José Rubén Zamora

“Guatemalan authorities should immediately release & drop any criminal charges against journalist José Rubén Zamora, president of elPeriódico”

Police raided his home & the office of his newspaper, elPeriodico. Zamora is accused – without evidence – of money laundering & blackmail.

Tired of media censorship and the political and economic crisis in Venezuela, Maria Jose Vargas gave up her job with a digital TV channel.

Carreño, a reporter for Radio UDG, affiliated with the University of Guadalajara, underwent surgery for injuries to her chest and neck.

“After more than a year in pretrial detention, Cuban journalist Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca is being forced through a sham trial.”

Cruz wrote for local newspaper Expreso and is the second reporter from the paper to be killed, following Hector González in 2018.

US prosecutors indicted Assange on 17 espionage charges over WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of leaked military and diplomatic documents.

He covered social movements and protests against a destructive project known as ZEDEs, aimed at attracting foreign investment in Honduras.

Israeli forces killed 31-year-old Palestinian journalist Ghufran Harun Warasneh Wednesday as she commuted to her new job at a radio station…

“We are alarmed by the passage of Cuba’s new penal code, which further criminalizes the work of independent journalists on the island”