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Canadian TV crew hoping to cover mining dispute fears being denied entry

Three journalists with Canada’s state-owned CBC TV, who set off from Toronto today to cover a dispute between indigenous groups and Canadian and (...)

Published on 30 January 2012 Read

Honduras

Women journalists terrorized, peasant spokesman gunned down in Aguán

Gilda Silvestrucci (photo) has become the latest member of the “Journalists for Life and Free Expression” collective to get threatening phone (...)

Published on 24 January 2012 Read

Dominican Republic

Journalist receives six-month sentence and harsh fine in defamation case

Johnny Alberto Salazar, head of the community radio station Vida FM and the online newspaper vidadominicana.com in Nagua has been sentenced to (...)

Published on 24 January 2012 Read

Chile

Government scraps plan to force journalists to inform police

Thanks to a wave of demonstrations and protests in Santiago the government has abandoned plans to force journalists to hand over images to police (...)

Published on 23 January 2012 Read

Paraguay

Journalist targeted by drug traffickers may have to move abroad

Brazilian police have alerted the Paraguayan journalist Cándido Figueredo, a correspondent for the daily ABC Color in the northern department of (...)

Published on 20 January 2012 Read

Honduras

Lawyer gunned down after reporting police abuses to the media

The lawyer Ricardo Rosales was murdered two days ago, three days after he was quoted in the newspaper Diario Tiempo as accusing police officers (...)

Published on 19 January 2012 Read

Americas

OAS: Special rapporteur for freedom of expression is not a political plaything

Will the Inter-American human rights system survive beyond January 25? This is one of the decisions that will be put to the meeting of (...)

Published on 19 January 2012 Read

United States

Reporters Without Borders to close its English-language site for 24 hours

In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders will shut down its English-language website for 24 hours from 8 a.m. EST on 18 January, in (...)

Published on 17 January 2012 Read

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