Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

Threats against journalist Dayana Cieza began in mid-July, after she published a report showing benefits that are enjoyed by some inmates inside a prison in Lima.

On May 24, 2015, three unknown individuals beat journalist Manuel Calloquispe and seized his equipment while he was gathering information about illegal gold extraction.

Violent protests against the Tia Maria mining project have been ongoing for more than 50 days in the cities of Cocachacra and Arequipa. On 14 May the demonstrations left many journalists injured.

In the midst of few guarantees for the safety of journalists in Guatemala, authorities are endorsing the creation of a body that may further increase the vulnerability of freedom of the press.

The adoption of the Law of Audiovisual Communication Services promotes democratisation of the media and the effective exercise of freedom of expression in Uruguay.

According to IPYS, Public Prosecutor Delia Begazo Villanueva has mistakenly including Rodrigo Abd –a photographer for the American news agency Associated Press– in her investigation of Greenpeace in the Nazca Lines case.

Joan Pierre Ríos, a photojournalist for the newspaper El Comercio, was arbitrarily arrested by police officers when covering a story outside the Presbitero Maestro cemetery, in downtown Lima.

Journalist Fernando Raymondi was in his father’s grocery store when a group of criminals walked in, apparently intending to rob the store. After Raymondi recognized one of them, the criminal shot him twice in the chest, killing him.