Guatemala - Alerts
Luis Soto was injured as a result of being struck in the head with a stone while covering a confrontation between the students and riot police.
Representatives of the Attorney General's office and National Civil Police officers raided community radio stations Uqul Tinamit and Jun Toj, taking their equipment and arresting one journalist.
Journalists in Mazatenango, Suchitépequez have denounced the closing of six local TV stations, a decision that was taken after the local mayor put pressure on the Cable DX company, saying he would not tolerate criticism of his administration.
Héctor Cordero, a correspondent for Guatevisión, was assaulted by a politician's bodyguard and will have to remain in hospital for 10 days.
Lucía Escobar says she was threatened after publishing an article about the forced disappearance of a person in the town of Panajachel, in western Guatemala.
Danilo López said the harassment began after he published a story detailing complaints accusing the mayor and his son of selling permits to illegal taxi operators.
Franciso Pérez was dismissed after he refused to support the election campaign of the congressional candidate, who is the director of the agency that administers Radio Ixcán.
Vasni Vásquez, who has been held in detention for two months, described the actions against him as an "attempt to intimidate the press."
Eduardo Villatoro has been receiving threats that appear to be linked to articles he wrote about resource exploitation and the construction of a liquid gas storage plant.
The threats may be related to the media's coverage of a recent massacre of 29 peasants, believed to have been carried out by the criminal gang.
Yensi Roberto Ordoñez Galdámez, a television journalist and teacher, had received threats in relation to his reporting.
Oscar de León has been receiving threats ever since he received a folder detailing accusations against the director of the Quetzaltenango Municipal Transport Police.
Jorge Toledo and Norman Rodas were assaulted by two members of the Partido Patriota (PP) communications team after a press conference at the party's headquarters.
Luis Ángel Sas has received death threats that make reference to an article he wrote about stolen army weapons that ended up in the hands of the Los Zetas crime group.
Journalist Víctor Hugo Juárez was found murdered on 27 September 2010 and appeared to have been tortured and strangled.
After Marvin Del Cid Acevedo's apartment was robbed, the journalist says that he fears for his safety.
Several assailants fired 28 shots at journalist Edin Rodelmiro Maaz Bol's home in Cobán.
The journalists said they were concerned for their safety because protestors threatened to beat and lynch them and held them overnight.
Martin del Cid Acevedo received a written message warning him that he would be killed.
Felipe Valenzuela was shot in the head during an attempted car robbery, but CERIGUA is not ruling out the possibility that the attack was related to his work as a journalist.
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