Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Charles and Lartigue were among a group of seven journalists who went to Cité Soleil to report on ongoing gang violence in the neighborhood and interview the family of a 17-year-old resident killed the day before.

“If passed, the legislation would expand the powers of the state broadcasting regulator, allowing it to regulate online and print outlets, invalidate the registration and license of any media outlet, block online media without a court order, and request that social media platforms and web browsers remove content forbidden under the law”.

Coronel hosted a daily news and music program on Radio Amambay, where he sometimes denounced political corruption and the police force’s alleged inability to solve crimes.

“Las Vegas police have acted quickly in identifying and arresting a suspect in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German,” said CPJ.

‘Novaya Gazeta’ suspended its print operation in Russia in March after receiving official warnings for allegedly failing to mark materials produced by so-called “foreign agents”. The newspaper is now barred from resuming printing in the future.

Ronson Chan, the chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was arrested by the police while covering an apartment owners’ meeting for alleged obstruction of a police officer.

Harassment of journalists at independent news website shows how determined President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s government is to punish journalists for their work.

Reporters covering abortion in the United States are wary of online harassment and the threat of physical violence after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.