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Features & Analysis – Mexico

‘Watershed’ protests demand end to violence against journalists in Mexico
A spate of journalist killings has deeply shaken Mexico’s embattled press corps, leading to a wave of nationwide protests and underscoring the country’s position as one of the world’s deadliest for media workers. Two journalists Lourdes Maldonado López and Alfonso Margarito Martínez Esquivel, were shot dead in Tijuana and a third, José Luis Gamboa, was stabbed to death in Veracruz this month.
- CPJ’s Jan-Albert Hootsen ‘shocked and horrified’ by violence against journalists: The Daily Mail
- WATCH: Mexican journalists protest violence against the press
- More on violence against journalists in Mexico
Safety Advisories – India

India state assembly elections 2022: Journalist safety guide
Alerts – Americas

Brazil mayor endangers journalist Giovani Grizotti by publicizing picture in video

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Journalists Attacked

John Wesley Amady

MURDERED

Haiti
On January 6, 2022, suspected gang members shot and killed Haitian journalists John Wesley Amady and Wilguens Louis-Saint while they were reporting on the lack of security in Laboule 12, an area disputed by gangs in the Port-au-Prince commune of Pétion-Ville.

The journalists were walking in the area when unidentified attackers suddenly opened fire. Amady and Louis-Saint were captured by gang members and then shot and killed.

Amady was on assignment for the Montreal-based broadcaster Radio Écoute FM.

Learn more about Amady