SOS for Journalist

Fresh blocks on a handful of Venezuela’s few remaining independent news websites are a troubling sign of escalating press censorship…

“Today the threats were ultimately fulfilled. One of our colleagues died at the hands of three people who shot him in a cowardly manner.”

The video was allegedly in retaliation to Grizotti’s report earlier this month on allegations of corruption involving the mayor…

Maldonado is the second journalist killed in Tijuana in less than a week. On January 17, photojournalist Margarito Martínez was shot dead.

Carniel told CPJ that, while hitting him, the man said, “This is so you learn not to denounce things, say bad things about others…

Martínez covered police and crime for local outlets and worked as a fixer for international media, including the BBC.

Devices belonging to 35 people, mostly journalists along with a few members of civil society, were infected with Pegasus spyware.