🇺🇸 #USA: IPI welcomes justice for the 2008 kidnapping of IPI World Press Freedom Hero David Rohde as an important step in securing accountability for this crime. #EndImpunity
🇲🇽 #Mexico: IPI is deeply concerned about the continued disappearance of journalist Roxana Berenice Guzmán Rodríguez, who was abducted from her home by unknown individuals more than a week ago.
IPI calls on the Mexican government to prioritise her safe return.
🇲🇽 #Mexico: IPI condemns the killing of Luis Ángel López Valdez of @Vanguardia_Mx, just days after another journalist was kidnapped in the same region.
Mexican authorities must hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable and take urgent action to protect journalists.
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🇺🇸 #USA: IPI is disturbed that NSO Group is once again using WhatsApp to target users with spyware, despite a U.S. court order forbidding it from doing so.
IPI has long called on states to rein in this technology, which has been used against journalists.
🇮🇳 #India: Nearly 9 years after the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, the trial to bring those responsible for her killing to justice drags on, marred by repeated delays, with no end in sight. Her killers must be held accountable. #EndImpunity
🇧🇷 #Brazil: IPI welcomes a decision by a Brazilian court to try the mastermind believed to be behind the 2022 murder of journalist Dom Phillips. Achieving justice for Dom is a critical step toward ending the cycle of impunity for killings of journalists.
🇬🇹 #Guatemala: IPI welcomes Guatemala’s new attorney general’s decision to drop criminal proceedings against several El Periódico journalists and columnists as a positive step toward restoring press freedom in the country. (1/2)
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🇺🇸 #USA: As the #FIFAWorldCup begins today, IPI echoes the International Sports Press Association (AIPS)'s call on FIFA to do everything in their power to ensure journalists travelling to the U.S. to cover the games are able to enter the country and do their jobs freely & safely.
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🇮🇱 #Israel: IPI is alarmed by Israel’s deportation of French journalist Alice Froussard, apparently due to her reporting on Israeli actions and policies in Gaza and the West Bank. This decision must be immediately reversed, and Froussard allowed to do her job freely and safely.
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Yet more work remains to be done to restore Guatemala’s independent press.
IPI repeats its call on authorities to end their legal campaign against IPI World Press Freedom Hero and El Periódico founder José Rubén Zamora, who was first arrested in 2022. (2/2)
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