Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

The new disinformation law carries a prison term of up to three years for those convicted of publicly spreading false information that causes concern, fear, or panic.

The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Guatemalan authorities to stop any investigation of columnists and employees of ‘elPeriódico’ newspaper, release its president José Rubén Zamora unconditionally, and allow the newspaper’s staff to work freely.

“It is deeply disturbing that a journalist was killed while covering the gun violence that has become a sickening reality of living in the United States.”

“Prosecuting journalists on charges unrelated to journalism is clear intimidation,” – CPJ

The ten journalists – nine of whom have been under pre-trial arrest since October – face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty under Turkey’s anti-terrorism laws.

Mozambican journalist Rosario Cardoso faces the wrath of police officers after he questioned them about soliciting kickbacks during an evening patrol.

On February 14, an unidentified attacker on a motorcycle shot Álvarez while he was in his car at a stoplight in Pedro Juan Caballero, a city near Paraguay’s border with Brazil.

Mendoza was among 222 political prisoners unexpectedly released by Nicaraguan authorities and deported to the US. All of the group, which included ‘La Prensa’ publisher Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro and five other journalists and media workers who asked not to be named to protect the safety of their families, were stripped of their Nicaraguan citizenship.