The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) praised a Supreme Court decision (PDF file) to reverse a ruling that freed one of photojournalist José Luis Cabezas’ killers, EFE reports. read more »

The assassination of police reporter Bladimir Antuna in Durango has once again exposed the helplessness of media workers in Mexico. The situation makes the country one of the world's most riskiest in which to practice journalism. read more »

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has released a global online database of journalists who have suffered violent deaths relating to their work since 1992. The database is designed to memorialize those who have died and to call for justice in unsolved cases.

Three Latin American countries, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, are among the 10 deadliest for journalists, with Colombia in third with 39 cases. read more »

As part of an agreement with the Inter American Press Association and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the government of the northeastern state of Bahia claimed responsibility for the 1998 death of Manoel Leal, A Tarde reports. read more »

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has called on the authorities to exert a “greater effort” to solve the murder of journalist Jaime Garzón, EFE reports. read more »

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) describes the lack of justice for 16 Colombian journalists who have been killed is “scandalous, ” El Tiempo reports. The investigations into their deaths have either been suspended, filed away, or discontinued by resolution. read more »

Eugenio Hernández, the ex-mayor of El Ayote, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2004 murder of María José Bravo of La Prensa newspaper. He could go free due to errors by the Justice Department in investigating the case, EFE reports. read more »

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) called on newspaper readers in the Americas to sign an open letter to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, asking him to put resources into solving the death of journalist Jorge Vieira da Costa, who was killed in 2001 in read more »

Attacks on Mexican journalists have forced media to take their own measures, and a proposal to elevate such crimes to a federal offense is unlikely to reduce the risks, says Leonarda Reyes founder of Mexico's Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET). read more »

The International Press Institute (IPI) has launched the “Justice Denied" campaign to tell the stories of 10 journalists from around the world who were silenced due to imprisonment, attack, or assassination. The journalists are unjustly imprisoned, or their aggressors remain unpunished. read more »

Police have had suspects for years in the 1998 shooting death of journalist Tara Singh Hayer, and they know who financed the plot, but no charges have been filed because of “problems with the justice system here in Canada,” his son told the Vancouver Sun. read more »

The Supreme Court ruling upholds the dismissal of charges against six men in the 2003 killing of journalist Ivannia Mora Rodríguez, closing the case, Nuestro País reports.

In a 3-2 vote, the ruling favors, among others, Eugenio Millot, the journalist's former employer, who investigators had named as the plotter of the homicide, La Nación said. read more »