Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Andino, 23, graduated from journalism school in 2021 and worked as a producer for afternoon shows on the national La Tribuna TV (LTV) station.

When police arrested José Rubén Zamora in July 2022, it marked the latest salvo in a decades-long campaign of harassment against the pioneering Guatemalan investigative journalist.

Moreno was the director of independent online news outlet ‘Voces De Córdoba’, which published local news reports on Facebook, and a well-known community leader who received threats for years for his reporting on political corruption and drug-trafficking groups.

In what CPJ has found to be by far the deadliest country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere, there remains no legal protection from intrusive surveillance, no recourse for its victims, and no repercussions for those in public office who facilitated the spying.

“From the start, it has been clear that the case against Daler Imomali is about signalling that the critical public-interest journalism that he practiced will not be tolerated, and ratcheting up pressure on Tajikistan’s media to self-censor” – CPJ

Togolese newspaper “Liberté” continues publishing while appealing its 3-month suspension.

South African High Court orders journalist Thabo Makwakwa to return secret documents to South Africa’s State Security Agency.

Detained independent blogger Huynh Thuc Vy told her young daughter that guards had beaten and choked her at the Gia Trung Prison.