The IPI global press freedom network reiterated its call on Guatemala to immediately release IPI World Press Freedom José Rubén Zamora, who has been jailed since July on money-laundering charges that are widely considered politically motivated. Zamora faces a next hearing in the case on December 8. Zamora, the president and founder of the independent […]
The U.N. Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists was launched in 2012 to better protect the press and address impunity. Ten years later, it is obvious that not enough has been done. Journalists continue to be killed and impunity remains rampant.
(Note: At past noon of April 28, 2007, six people barged into the Quezon City fastfood where farmer-activist Jonas Burgos was taking lunch and seized him, shocking not just the mall goers but a nation that thought such scenarios had long gone with martial law’s lifting. The son of the…