Posts Tagged ‘death threats’
January 12th, 2012
An independent journalist and human rights campaigner in
Honduras has received several
death threats following her involvement in a free expression march last month. Itsmania Pineda Platero was told “We’ll skin you alive, bitch!” in one of four death threats over three days. During one of the calls, there was the sound of a gun being loaded in the background. Platero walked at the forefront of the “Journalism for life and free expression” march on 13 December, which was violently dispersed by soldiers and members of the presidential guard.
March 3rd, 2011
While a government
crackdown on opposition leaders and activists inside Iran continues, those living in exile have not been spared either. Several Iranian journalists and writers living abroad have received
messages threatening “ultimate punishment” if they did not stop activities deemed to be “against the Islamic Republic”.
February 22nd, 2011
Journalists and human rights groups in Colombia have received alarming
threats from Aguilas Negras, an extreme right wing paramilitary group. The groups and individuals received a
document signed by the “Central Command of the Black Eagles” warning them that their lives are in danger. Aguilas Negras has targeted journalists in the past: one
report accused the group of imposing a “reign of terror, killing journalists or forcing them to censor themselves or flee the country”.
February 10th, 2011
Two reporters have received
death threats from people believed to be members of pro-Gbago militias, while one was threatened for being pro-Gbago. Madeleine Tanou and Kesy B. Jacobs were approached on separate occasions, accused of being critical of the Gbago government and threatened with being skinned alive. Assomon Anoh, meanwhile, was threatened by members of an anti-Gbago militia for synchronizing his station’s programme with that of Gbagbo controlled state-owned Ivorian Broadcasting Corporation (RTI).
October 30th, 2009
Maria de los Ángeles González Hernández, columnist at the newspaper “El Político” has reportedly received a number of anonymous death threats by email, allegedly from local labour leaders in Xalapa, Veracruz, southern Mexico.
On 22 October, the journalist said she had received seven emails with threats against her and her family. According to Gonzalez, the threats could arise from a newspaper column in which concerns the triumph of independent workers in a contest to represent employees in negotiating the collective agreement of the sugar factory Ingenio El Potrero, managing to defeat the main union of the country, the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (CTM).
August 28th, 2009
Stella Estremera, editor-in-chief and Virginia Agtay, news editor of the Sun Star Davao have both received death threats in the Philippines. The threats which came in the form of text messages warned that “a single bullet would be enough for you two” unless they ceased their “biased” reporting in favour of the city government. Read more here
