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Documentary filmmaker slain in El Salvador

AFP Christian Poveda, far right, whose new documentary on a violent Salvadoran street gang is scheduled for release this month, is shot and killed outside the capital. Poveda, 52, had documented violence in El Salvador over three decades. At right are Poveda and some subjects of his new film.
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Six face murder charges in French filmmaker’s slaying

Six men—five members of a Salvadoran street gang and a police agent—face murder charges in the death of French filmmaker Christian Gregorio Poveda Ruiz, El Salvador’s attorney general’s office said. Poveda, whose new documentary on a violent Salvadoran gang was scheduled for wide release at the end of this month, was gunned down on September 2 just north of the capital, San Salvador, according to local and international new reports.
(AFP)New York, September 3, 2009--The bullet-ridden body of journalist Christian Poveda, whose new documentary on a violent Salvadoran street gang was scheduled for wide release this month, was discovered Wednesday afternoon just north of the capital, San Salvador, according to local and international press reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Salvadoran authorities to thoroughly investigate the slaying.
We issued the following statement today in response to the killing of Franco-Spanish documentary filmmaker and photojournalist Christian Poveda who was shot to death on Wednesday in El Salvador where he had been covering violent gangs...

Powerful drug traffickers in Mexico, gangsters in Brazilian slums, paramilitaries in Colombia, and violent street gangs in El Salvador and Guatemala are terrorizing the press. Self-censorship is widespread. By Carlos Lauría

Attacks & developments throughout the region
JANUARY 7, 2008 
Posted February 7, 2007

William Chamagua, Radio Mi Gente

THREATENED

 

Chamagua, owner of the San Salvador-based Radio Mi Gente and host of political news show "Hablando Con Mi Gente" (Talking to my people), has received several death threats that extend to his family and employees. Chamgaua told CPJ that he believes the threats are linked to the station's critical reporting on the Salvadorian government.

OCTOBER 25, 2007
Posted December 7, 2007

Borman Mármol, La Prensa Gráfica
Alex Nolasco, Canal 21

ATTACKED

During a clash between protesters and local police near the western city of Santa Ana, Mármol, a photographer for the San Salvador-based daily La Prensa Gráfica,and Nolasco, a reporter for the national TV station Canal 21, were attacked by protesters and the anti-riot unit of the local police.

Attacks & developments throughout the region


By Mathew Hansen

Hundreds of journalists have been killed over 15 years, many on the orders of government officials. Few cases are ever solved. In the Fall/Winter 2006 edition of Dangerous Assignments

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