Press Releases
DECEMBER
- R125/10 - Press Release R 125/10
Washington, D.C., December 29, 2010 - R122/10 - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression express their concern regarding three draft laws that could be approved in the next few days in Venezuela that could restrict freedom of expression
Washington, D.C., December 15, 2010 - R119/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses its concern regarding the possible intervention by the Venezuelan State in the television channel Globovisión
Washington, D.C., December 8, 2010
NOVEMBER
- R113/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression expresses its concern over the announcement for pronouncement of judgment scheduled for November 17, 2010, in a criminal defamation case against elected mayor of Lima, Susana Villarán
Washington, D.C., November 15, 2010 - R111/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression asks the State of Mexico to carry out a diligent, rigorous, independent, and transparent investigation in order to clarify the circumstances in which journalist Carlos Guajardo died on November 5 in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Washington, D.C., November 9, 2010 - R108/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur condemns the murders of the director and president of the newspaper Entre-Ríos, José Pontes de Souza, which occurred on October 30 in Paraíba do Sul, and of radio reporter Francisco Gomes de Medeiros, who died on October 18 in the city of Caicó
Washington, D.C., November 3, 2010
OCTOBER
- R106/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur condemns the murder of indigenous leader and journalist Rodolfo Maya Aricape, which occurred on October 14 on the López Adentro, reservation in the Department of Cauca, Colombia and calls upon the State to investigate the crime
Washington, D.C., October 22, 2010 - R101/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression expresses its concern over the criminal conviction and one-year prison sentence issued by a Panamanian court on September 24 against two journalists who had previously been acquitted for reporting on actions of public officials
Washington, D.C., October 8, 2010 - R100/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur expresses its concern over a decision by the Supreme Court of El Salvador that allows for the imposition of criminal sanctions against journalists who disseminate information that offends the honor or reputation of public officials
Washington, D.C., October 7, 2010
SEPTEMBER
- R96/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur condemns the acts of violence committed in recent days against journalists and communications media in Honduras, and urges authorities to take all measures necessary to prevent such crimes and to duly investigate and punish the perpetrators
Washington, D.C., September 20, 2010 - R95/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression condemns yesterday’s attack against two photographers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in which Luis Carlos Santiago was killed and one of his colleagues was injured. This latest murder brings the number of deaths to at least ten this year
Washington, D.C., September 17, 2010 - R92/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses its concern regarding the murder of journalist and community leader Adams Ledesma Valenzuela, which took place on Saturday, September 4th in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Washington, D.C., September 10, 2010
AUGUST
- R88/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of is concerned about the one-year prison sentence handed down by a Peruvian court on August 5 against journalist Fernando Santo Rojas, for the crime of aggravated defamation against the mayor of the municipal government of Satipo
Washington, D.C., August 30, 2010 - R87/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of IACHR expresses its most emphatic condemnation of the car bomb attack against the Televisa building in Ciudad Victoria, which took place in the early morning hours today in that town in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas
Washington, D.C., August 27, 2010 - R85/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the murder of journalist Israel Zelaya Díaz, which took place last Tuesday, August 24, 2010, in the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Washington, D.C., August 26, 2010 - R84/10 - Rapporteurs for freedom of expression of the IACHR and UN made public their preliminary observations regarding their joint official visit to Mexico, which took place from August 9-24, 2010
Washington, D.C., August 25, 2010 - R83/10 - The Special Rapporteurs for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR and the United Nations concluded today their official joint visit to Mexico. Today they also presented their conclusions to the Mexican authorities. The purpose of the visit was to assess the status of freedom of expression
Washington, D.C., August 24, 2010 - R82/10 - The OAS and UN rapporteurs for freedom of expression believe that the decision by a Venezuelan court to prohibit the written press from publishing content that could be considered "violent" or "aggressive," for a one-month period, constitutes an act of prior censorship
Washington, D.C., August 19, 2010 - R81/10 - The rapporteurs for freedom of expression of the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS), Frank La Rue and Catalina Botero, deeply deplore the car-bomb attack that took place in the early morning hours of August 12 outside the offices of Radio Caracol, in Bogotá, Colombia
Washington, D.C., August 13, 2010 - R80/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur expresses its concern over threats received by Fausto Rosario Adames, the editor of the Dominican Republic weekly newspaper Clave, following the publication of articles on drug trafficking activities in that country, and regrets the closure of that publication
Washington, D.C., August 10, 2010 - R78/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression is deeply concerned over the taking of the news media and journalists as hostages in order to coerce media outlets to broadcast the messages of criminal gangs in Mexico
Washington, D.C., August 4, 2010
JULY
- R70/10 - The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) strongly condemns renewed acts of violence that, in separate incidents, took the lives of two journalists in Mexico and damaged a radio station's installations
Washington, D.C., July 15, 2010 - R67/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR expresses deep concern over the murder of journalist Hugo Alfredo Olivera, who was found dead on July 6 near the city of Apatzingán, in Mexico's Michoacán state
Washington, D.C., July 8, 2010 - R66/10 - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' (IACHR) Office of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression wishes to express its deep concern at the murder of journalists Juan Francisco Rodríguez Ríos and María Elvira Hernández Galeana in Coyuca de Benítez, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico
Washington, D.C., July 2, 2010
JUNE
- R65/10 - Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR stresses the protection of critical or dissident voices in the inter-American system, as stated in the case of Manuel Cepeda Vargas by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Washington, D.C., June 24, 2010 - R62/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the murder of journalist Luis Arturo Mondragón, on Tuesday, June 14, 2010, in the city of El Paraíso, Honduras
Washington, D.C., June 16, 2010 - R61/10 - The commissioner for Venezuelan matters of the IACHR and the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression sent a communication to the Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to express their deep concern over the deterioration of the situation of the right to freedom of expression
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2010
APRIL
- R48/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR deplores the attack on a humanitarian convoy that occurred on April 27th, 2010 while the convoy made its way to the community of San Juan Copala in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico
Washington, D.C., April 30, 2010 - R45/10 - Office of the Special Rapporteur expresses its concern at the latest murder of a journalist in Honduras and at the grave vulnerability of the media there
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2010 - R43/10 - Today the IACHR presented its 2009 annual report to the OAS' Committee on Political and Juridical Affairs. The report includes the 2009 annual report of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
Washington, D.C., April 15, 2010 - R41/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression expresses its concern for the disappearance of journalist Ramón Ángeles Zalpa in the State of Michoacán, México
Washington, D.C., April 12, 2010
MARCH
- R40/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur expresses its deep concern over the three-year prison sentence issued against journalist Emilio Palacio, an editorial writer for the daily El Universo in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador
Washington, D.C., March 31, 2010 - R39/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the murder of journalists Bayardo Mairena and Manuel Juárez, both of R.Z. Television Channel 4 and Radio Excélsior, on March 26 in the department of Olancho, Honduras
Washington, D.C., March 27, 2010 - R37/10 - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights repudiates the arrest of Guillermo Zuloaga in Venezuela, which came about as part of an open investigation resulting from statements he made at an assembly of the Inter-American Press Association
Washington, D.C., March 25, 2010 - R36/10 - The IACHR expresses its deep concern over the use of the punitive power of the State to criminalize human rights defenders, judicialize peaceful social protests, and persecute through the criminal system persons the authorities consider political opponents in Venezuela
Washington, D.C., March 25, 2010 - R34/10 - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ (IACHR) Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression condemns the murder of Clodomiro Castilla Ospino, a journalist with the magazine El Pulso del Tiempo and the radio broadcaster La Voz de Montería, on Friday, March 19, 2010
Washington, D.C., March 22, 2010 - R29/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns the murder of David Meza Montesinos, a journalist with Channel 10 and radios ‘América’ and ‘El Patio’, which occurred in Honduras on March 11th
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2010 - R28/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights expresses deep concern over the extremely serious escalation of violence against the press in the city of Reynosa, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2010 - R24/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns the murder of journalist Joseph Hernández Ochoa and the serious assault suffered by journalist Karol Cabrera in an attack that took place March 1 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Washington, D.C., March 5, 2010
FEBRUARY
- R18/10 - The Specials Rapporteurs of UN, OAS, OSCE and ACHPR noted that many important gains have been made over the past ten years, but they also expressed their concern regarding the enormous challenges that still exist in ensuring the full enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression
Washington, D.C., February 4, 2010 - R16/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur expresses its deep concern over the murder of journalist Jorge Ochoa Martínez, the editor of the weekly newspapers El Sol de la Costa and El Oportuno, in the state of Guerrero, Mexico
Washington, D.C., February 3, 2010
JANUARY
- R8/10 - The IACHR’s Commissioner for Venezuelan Affairs and Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression expressed their emphatic rejection of the closing of cable television channels in Venezuela and requested that the guarantees of freedom of expression and due process be reestablished
Washington, D.C., January 24, 2010 - R7/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression emphatically condemns the murder of José Luis Romero, a journalist with radio news show "Línea Directa," which is broadcast by Radio Sistema del Noroeste in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico
Washington, D.C., January 23, 2010 - R3/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression emphatically condemns the murder of Valentín Valdés Espinosa, a journalist with daily newspaper Zócalo Saltillo in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila state, Mexico
Washington, D.C., January 11, 2010 - R2/10 - The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression expresses concern over the attack against radio station Faluma Bimetu in Honduras
Washington, D.C., January 11, 2010
DECEMBER
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Joint Statement on Wikileaks from the Special Rapporteurs for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR and the United Nations. The statement presents international principles that should guide the actions of governments regarding this issue
Washington, D.C., December 21, 2010
