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Demonstrators hold signs to demand the release of three journalists who are believed to have been taken hostage in Colombia, 25 May 25 2016, AP Photo/Fernando Vergara

Journalists reporting on disappeared reporter also go missing

After Colombian-Spanish journalist Salud Hernández-Mora went missing on 21 May in northern Colombia, two other journalists who went to report on her disappearance have also gone missing.

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Panama Papers: Harassment of journalists in Ecuador and Venezuela must end

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today condemned and called for an end to harassment of Ecuadorean journalists who collaborated in the “Panama Papers” international investigation.

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Radio announcer shot while on air in Brazil

Brazilian radio announcer João Valdecir de Borba was killed on 10 March while he was broadcasting a musical radio program.

A protestor holds a sign reading "No more blood of journalists" at a demonstration demanding justice in the case of Regina Martinez, a journalist who was killed in Veracruz in 2012, AP Photo/Felix Marquez

Enough is enough: Yet another Veracruz journalist is abducted and killed

It’s a familiar story that always has the same sad ending. Anabel Flores Salazar, a crime reporter for El Sol de Orizaba newspaper, was found dead on 9 February 2016 in the state of Puebla, becoming the 15th journalist killed in Veracruz since 2010.

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Panamanian paper fined over article published in 2001

The newspaper Panamá América has been ordered to pay $25,000 to former Supreme Court Justice Winston Spadafora. The former judge felt offended and sued the newspaper and two of its journalists over a news item published in 2001.

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Attack on TV team in Argentina

The Crónica TV team was covering a demonstration transportation company drivers when they were beaten, kicked and attacked with stones by people belonging to the Union Tranvarios Automotor.

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Guatemalan paper’s future threatened by recent robbery

The Inter American Press Association condemns the theft of 26 computers from the Guatemalan magazine Crónica and suspects it may have been a strategy to silence investigations conducted by the magazine.

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Panamanian newspaper fined for causing “emotional distress”

The Inter American Press Association has declared that a recent court ruling against the Panama newspaper La Prensa is a clear attack on freedom of the press.