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Nicaragua - Political and judicial harassment of NGOs threatens freedom of expression and association - 10.10.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns a government smear campaign against two journalists and NGO directors, Carlos Fernando Chamorro (photo) and Sofía Montenegro. The latest development is a dubious administrative and judicial investigation into 17 NGOs, including theirs, which threatens the right to inform and the right of association. The two journalists are threatened with imprisonment.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 10-Oct-2008 19:26

Dominican Republic - Surprising silence from authorities about disturbing surge in press freedom violations - 7.10.2008
Reporters Without Borders hopes that talks between journalist representatives and the authorities will help to curb a wave of violence and judicial harassment of the media since the start of the year. Some 50 cases have been reported by the National Union of Press Workers.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 07-Oct-2008 19:12

Mexico - Lid taken off investigation into murder of Brad Will: Reporters Without Borders writes to the Federal Justice Minister - 2.10.2008
Reporters Without Borders has called for action from top Mexican authorities after the National Human Rights Commission reported serious failings in the investigation into the murder of Indymedia journalist Brad Will, in Oaxaca on 27 October 2006.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Oct-2008 19:06

Cuba - Two Cuban journalists with UN accreditation denied visas to reenter the United States - 30.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 30-Sep-2008 19:15

Venezuela - Shooting attack against regional daily's outspoken columnist - 29.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 29-Sep-2008 19:26

Venezuela - Interior minister justifies attack against Globovisión claimed by pro-government militants - 25.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Sep-2008 19:08

Mexico - Radio host who campaigned against organised crime gunned down in Tabasco - 25.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the slowness of the federal and Tabasco state authorities to respond to the murder of radio EXA FM programme host Alejandro Fonseca on 23 September in Villahermosa, although congress is currently considering a bill to make it a federal crime to attack journalists.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Sep-2008 18:53

Argentina - journalist who exposed corruption harrassed and threatened with death - 23.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 23-Sep-2008 19:04

Peru - Death threats made against journalist specialising in highly sensitive investigations - 19.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders urged the authorities to pursue every line of inquiry in their investigation into death threats made in the past week against investigative journalist Americo Zambrano, of the weekly magazine Caretas, who has made revelations about highly sensitive cases.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 19-Sep-2008 19:04

Bolivia - Reporters Without Borders urges president and opposition prefects to restore calm after ten days of severe violence - 15.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders publicly appealed to president Evo Morales and four opposition prefects to put an end to ten days of violence in which 20 people have died and in which the media has been badly hit. The open letter is published as long-awaited dialogue opens between the government and the opposition.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 15-Sep-2008 19:23

Venezuela - In ?victory for impunity,? court acquits alleged drug baron of journalist's murder - 11.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 11-Sep-2008 19:26

Mexico - Lack of clear legislation and government violations of international commitments reinforce community media fear of closures - 10.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 11-Sep-2008 13:20

Peru - Impunity blamed for a new wave of threats and attacks on provincial journalists - 9.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns police and judicial laxness towards those responsible for violence against journalists after a new wave of physical attacks and threats on the provincial news media since the end of August. The fight against impunity should not be limited to cases of murders of journalists, the organisation says.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 09-Sep-2008 19:18

Panama - Seizure of weekly's property and bank accounts slammed as a form of ?Indirect censorship? - 8.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 08-Sep-2008 19:01

Brazil - Call for boost to media safety ahead of elections after journalist injured in Mato Grosso do Sul state - 3.09.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 03-Sep-2008 19:15

United States - Call for withdrawal of charges against three journalists manhandled and arrested outside Republican Party convention - 2.09.2008
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the manhandling and arrest of Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman (photo) and two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, while covering demonstrations yesterday near the Republican Party convention. The organisation calls for the withdrawal of the charges brought against them.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Sep-2008 19:29

United States - ABC News reporter arrested in Denver during the Democratic National Convention - 28.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of ABC News producer Asa Eslocker on August 27 in downtown Denver and calls on the Denver Police Department to drop all charges against the reporter.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 29-Aug-2008 01:21

Colombia - Authorities use judicial proceedings to intimidate media - 27.08.2008
President Alvaro Uribe's personal call on 22 August for a criminal investigation of journalist Daniel Coronell is one of the latest and worst examples of attempts by the authorities to intimidate part of the press.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 27-Aug-2008 19:28

Guatemala - Editor of daily El Periódico abducted and drugged and a journalist assaulted within 24 hours - 25.08.2008
Reporters Without Borders called for protection for the offices of the daily El Periódico and its most exposed staff, after its editor José Rubén Zamora was abducted and released seriously ill and one of his journalists, Oscar Ismatul, was beaten up 24 hours later.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 26-Aug-2008 01:16

United States / India - ?We do not want another Shi Tao case? - 25.08.2008
A Bombay high court ordered Google's subsidiary on 15 August to reveal the identity of a blogger who used the pseudonym ?Toxic Writer? to post comment's criticising Gremach on Google's blog platform, Blogger.com.?We urge Google's executives not to comply with the local law and to appeal against the court's decision,?Reporters Without Borders said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Aug-2008 13:18

United States - Officer goes undercover as reporter to find leak in criminal investigation - 23.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Aug-2008 13:03

Argentina - Radio station stripped of its FM frequency in ?absurd and unfair? decision - 22.08.2008
The Argentine broadcast regulator's decision on 12 August to deprive Buenos Aires-based Radio Continental of its FM frequency is based on an broadcast law adopted under the military dictatorship which is apparently no longer valid and which the current government has anyway promised to repeal. The decision is widely seen as an act of ?political revenge? against the station.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Aug-2008 19:26

Bolivia - Call to stop new violence against media in wake of recall vote - 20.08.2008
Attacks on journalists have resumed, chiefly in secessionist Santa Cruz province, after a lull during the 10 August recall referendum. Reporters Without Borders again urges government and opposition to protect journalists.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 21-Aug-2008 13:05

United States - FBI apologizes to newspapers for spying on reporters: the bureau does not explain the need to investigate journalists - 13.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 19:03

United States - Government's Attempt to Block Amicus Curie Brief for CBS Case Denied by Court - 13.08.2008
The government's attempts to flout news-gathering privilege hit another road-block on 11 August when a court denied their request to block an amicus curie brief signed by Reporters Without Borders and numerous news organizations in support of CBS in their effort to quash a government subpoena.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 18:48

United States - Leader of Your Black Muslim Bakery Launches Website And Continues To Deny Involvement In Reporter's Murder - 13.08.2008
On the eve of the first anniversary of Chauncey Bailey's murder, Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed that the investigation has not made any progress.The press freedom organization is launching a petition calling for "Justice for Chauncey Bailey" and urging the Attorney General of the United States of America to take the lead in the case.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 18:33

Bolivia - Recall referendum goes off quietly, with only a few isolated attacks on press - 11.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 18:18

Dominican Republic - TV cameraman gunned down in Santiago - 8.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 18:03

United States - Senators block approval of federal ?shield law? for journalists' sources - 4.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 17:48

Cuba - Concern about condition of imprisoned journalist on hunger strike - 1.08.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 17:33

Mexico - Break-in at publisher and news agency specialising in women's affairs - 29.07.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns a break-in that was discovered yesterday morning at the Mexico City offices of CIMAC, an NGO that publishes reports about women's issues and runs its own news agency, Cimac Noticias. Most of its computer equipment and much of its archives were stolen.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Aug-2008 17:18

France/Cote d'Ivoire - President Gbagbo's associates fail to cooperate with French probe into journalist's disappearance - 10.07.2008
Simone Gbagbo, the wife of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, and former Ivorian economy minister Paul-Antoine Bohoun Bouabré failed to respond to a summons from French investigating judge Patrick Ramaël for questioning today in Paris as witnesses in his probe into the disappearance of journalist Guy-André Kieffer, a dual French-Canadian national, in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 10-Jul-2008 19:28

Ecuador - Seizures of a radio station and two TV stations called ?inopportune? in run-up to referendum on new constitution - 9.07.2008
Yesterday's seizures of three broadcast media in Quito and Guayaquil were inopportune and unfair to their staff, Reporters Without Borders says. Regardless of the grounds for these measures, the organisation fears they could exacerbate tension between the president and the press in the run-up to a referendum on a proposed new constitution.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 09-Jul-2008 19:27

Argentina - Radio station's closure highlights need to replace radio broadcast law - 2.07.2008
Freeway FM, a radio station that had been broadcasting from Buenos Aires province for more than 10 years, was closed by the authorities on 23 June under a broadcasting law that was adopted under military rule in 1980 and has never been repealed. Reporters Without Borders condemns this act of censorship and supports a proposal for the law's replacement.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Jul-2008 19:14

Mexico - Journalist gunned down in Chihuahua state amid wave of violent crime - 26.06.2008
Reporters Without Borders urges the federal authorities and state governments to work together in the fight against impunity after journalist Candelario Pérez Pérez of the crime magazine Sucesos was gunned down in the border state of Chihuahua on 23 June. The motive is not yet known.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 26-Jun-2008 19:26

Cuba - After UE lifts sanctions, Cuba asked to show magnanimity towards Reporters Without Borders correspondent - 25.06.2008
The Reporters Without Borders correspondent in Cuba, Ricardo González Alfonso, was returned to his cell in January after a long spell in a prison hospital, but his health has worsened again. The Cuban government no longer has an excuse for eluding the issue of human rights and free expression after the European Union lifted its sanctions on 23 June.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Jun-2008 19:26

Mexico - Deputy editor of daily brutally beaten at his office, another journalist driven into exile - 24.06.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 24-Jun-2008 19:05

Ecuador - Radio journalist, target of two previous attacks, gunned down in Guayaquil - 24.06.2008
Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick progress in the investigation into yesterday's murder of Radio Sucre deputy news director Raúl Rodríguez in the neighbourhood where he lived in Guayaquil. The motive has yet to be established but he was outspoken on the air and had been the target of attacks in the past.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 24-Jun-2008 18:50

Bolivia - Two hurt in bombings against radio in Potosí as TV station targeted in the south - 23.06.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 23-Jun-2008 19:15

Brazil - Shots fired at Manaus daily after stories about another Amazon city's corruption links - 23.06.2008
Reporters Without Borders calls for effective protection for the staff of the Manaus-based Diário de Amazonas after 11 shots were fired on its headquarters on 21 June. The organisation hopes that the tense relations between the newspaper and the local authorities will not affect the investigation into the shooting.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 23-Jun-2008 19:00

Colombia - Kidnapped journalist Mario Alfonso Puello released after four months in captivity - 20.06.2008
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed with relief news of the release of Mario Alfonso Puello, a journalist on Radio Delfín, TV Norte and regional daily La Noticia, who was captured by the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN) in Guajira department, northern Colombia on 17 February.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 20-Jun-2008 19:26

Brazil - Conviction for ?electoral propaganda? condemned as ?absurd? - 19.06.2008
Reporters Without Borders slammed the conviction of two media for ?electoral propaganda?. Journalistic work should not be confused with propaganda and the concept of a ?prospective-candidate? is legally problematic in a democracy, where any political figure can seek nomination or votes, it said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 19-Jun-2008 19:14

Colombia - Magazine editor beaten, threatened at gunpoint after covering paramilitary links - 18.06.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 18-Jun-2008 19:18

Bolivia - Call for measures against radical pro-government groups as well as pro-autonomy militias after reporters attacked in La Paz - 9.06.2008
Reporters Without Borders hopes that a visit by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will prompt gestures on behalf of press freedom and calls for the same firmness with radical pro-government groups as with regional militias when they are responsible for threats and violence against the media.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 09-Jun-2008 19:12

Mexico - Editor survives murder attempt as a severed head is left as threat to another editor - 9.06.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 09-Jun-2008 18:57

Chile - Letter to President Bachelet about documentary filmmaker held for past month - 6.06.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Jun-2008 19:20