Aggression targeting Colombia’s journalists up 40% in 2015: Press freedom NGO
Aggression targeting journalists went up 40% last year, victimizing 232 journalists, according to the country’s foundation for the freedom of press FLIP.
Aggression targeting journalists went up 40% last year, victimizing 232 journalists, according to the country’s foundation for the freedom of press FLIP.
A former Liberal Party congressman was arrested on Sunday, four months after he was convicted for the 2002 murder of a journalist who had revealed corruption practices by the politician…
A journalist died after being shot several times during an apparent robbery attempt on Sunday in Valledupar, the capital of the northern Colombian province of Cesar.
A prominent local journalist was murdered while on her way to work at a radio station in a town in southwestern Colombia.
The assistant director of La Vanguardia Liberal, a newspaper from the northeast of Colombia, received death threats Tuesday night over the phone.
A TV cameraman was assassinated in western Colombia Wednesday night, with a nationally based NGO highlighting the failure of security forces to protect the journalist.
Two journalists covering a land eviction in northern Colombia were attacked by anti-riot police (ESMAD), causing injuries and the “censure” of materials, according to a the Foundation for Press Liberty…