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Nicaragua: Reporter Arrested for Criticizing Rising Prices

Elsbeth D’Anda, who hosts a television program on Nicaragua’s Channel 23, has been in police custody since October 27.

The US National Press Club has handed its top award for press freedom to Wael al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief.

The brazen killing of journalist Mauricio Cruz Solís is the first such deadly attack during the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum.

The judge ruled that, “for human rights reasons,” Jose Ruben Zamora should be granted the measure. His release is set to occur on Oct. 22.

By Democracy Now HAVANA TIMES – Al Jazeera says its camera operator Fadi al-Wahidi remains in critical condition after he

“We want to denounce that since July 12, journalist Fabiola Tercero has been in the condition of forced disappearance.”

Hassan Hamad is at least the 175th Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza since last October. He’s among at least 41,900 Palestinians killed.

“No one has seen or heard anything” from Fabiola Tercero since July 12, when she reported a raid on her home in Managua.

Extortion schemes are part of what press watchdog groups describe as an unprecedented government crackdown on the Venezuelan media.

Police also confiscated work and personal phones from an attorney for the international freedom of expression group Article 19.