Police in the Mexican state of Michoacán over the weekend discovered the dismembered body of a missing photojournalist said to have covered organised crime for a local newspaper. An inside source at the newspaper, Diario de Zamora, told AFP that Arturo Barajas, 46, had worked sensitive beats on a contractual basis. “When there were major […]

Public officials allegedly threatened or assaulted at least two journalists last week in Argentina, continuing a troubling trend that has made the country one of Latin America’s worst press freedom offenders in 2012. The Argentine Journalists Forum (FOPEA, according to its Spanish acronym) last week “energetically” condemned an Aug. 14 attack on radio journalist and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the release from prison of Belarusian photojournalist Anton Surapin, but reiterated its concern over his apparent continued prosecution. The Belarus Association of Journalists (BAJ) said on its website Friday that Surapin had been freed on bail from a KGB detention center, but was banned from leaving his hometown […]

A Belfast-based journalist received a death threat over the telephone on Saturday, reportedly from a terror unit of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a paramilitary group. The name of the journalist is not being revealed in line with a policy of the UK National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to protect individuals under threat. According to […]