Americas
2007
In Mexico, second grenade attack against northern newspaper
New York, May 17, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Wednesday’s grenade assault outside the offices of Cambio de Sonora, the second explosive attack in the last month against the Hermosillo-based daily. At 3:35 p.m., a grenade exploded in Cambio de Sonora’s parking lot in Hermosillo, about 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City,…
CPJ urges Colombia to probe tapping of journalists’ phones
New York, May 15, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Colombian authorities today to fully investigate the illegal tapping of journalists’ telephone lines. The government acknowledged on Monday that the national police have improperly listened in on the telephone conversations of public officials, opposition members, and journalists.
Ecuadoran President Correa should drop libel suit
New York, May 15, 2007—Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa Delgado should immediately drop a criminal defamation complaint filed against a top newspaper executive over a critical editorial, and he should help bring the country’s press laws into compliance with international standards on free expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Mexican TV news crew missing since Thursday
New York, May 14, 2007— TV Azteca Noreste reporter Gamaliel López Candanosa and camera operator Gerardo Paredes Pérez went missing on Thursday in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating possible links between their disappearance and their professional work.
MEXICO: Colleagues of journalist who was shot receive death threats
AUGUST 5, 2007 Posted August 16, 2007 Edwin Meneses Santiago, El Seminario del Istmo Daniel Pérez Espinoza, El Seminario del Istmo THREATENED Meneses, a reporter for the Salina Cruz-based weekly El Semanario del Istmo, and Pérez, the paper’s deputy director, told CPJ they received repeated telephone threats during the days that followed the August 5…
COLOMBIA: Photographer threatened after denouncing police attack
MAY 9 and 10, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 José David Martínez, Vanguardia Liberal THREATENED Martínez, a photographer for the Bucaramanga-based daily Vanguardia Liberal, received two telephone threats after giving a sworn statement to the attorney general’s office on a February police attack against him. Bucaramanga is in the western province of Santander.
In meeting with Mexican ambassador, CPJ urges action on press attacks
Washington, D.C., May 9, 2007—Mexico’s federal government must take concrete steps to protect press freedom and prosecute those responsible for crimes against the press, a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a meeting Tuesday with the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan Casamitjana.
Panel raises concerns about journalists held without charge by U.S.
Washington, D.C., May 8, 2007—A panel sponsored by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the National Press Club’s Freedom of the Press Committee today expressed concern about the ongoing detentions without charge of two journalists by the U.S. military in Iraq and at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Brazilian journalist who denounced corruption shot to death
New York, May 7, 2007—Brazilian journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho, known for investigative reporting that exposed political corruption, was gunned down on Saturday evening in the southern state of São Paulo. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Brazilian authorities today to thoroughly investigate the murder and bring those responsible to justice. “We offer our…