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 09 July 2007
Journalist covering political event insulted and beaten up
FLIPYS Alliance. Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) - Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS)
On Wednesday 4 July, journalist Javier Manjarrés, director of Emisoras Unidas' news program 'Actualidad', was insulted by a supporter of Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA) at the end of a press conference held by the party's president, Carlos Gaviria Díaz. The event took place at eleven a.m. at the hotel 'El Prado', in the city of Barranqilla, northern Colombia.
The journalist declared to FLIP that during the press conference he asked Gaviria about the investigations and accusations of corruption against Bernardo Hoyos, former mayor of Barranquilla, who is a member of PDA.
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27 June 2007
Paramilitary group member confesses to murder of Barrancabermeja journalist
A demobilised member of paramilitary group, Pablo Emilio Quintero Dodino, alias "Bedoya", has confessed to the 6 April 2003 murder of journalist José Emeterio Rivas Rivas, which took place in the city of Barrancabermeja, Santander department, northern Colombia. He did so in recent testimony before a judge of the "Justice and Peace" Unit of the Prosecutor's Office, in Medellín, the capital of Antioquia department. (Under the special "Justice and Peace" process, members of paramilitary groups are offered substantial sentence reductions in return for confessing to their crimes and agreeing to demobilise.)
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28 June 2007
Special report – Journalists ask for protection in order to cover the justice and peace process
FLIPYS Alliance. Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) – Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS)
The journalists who cover the hearings of demobilized combatients of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) in Medellín, capital of the department of Antioquia, work in fear. More and more often, their work is being observed and documented for unknown purposes. They also receive messages and threatening answers during the interviews that they carry out outside the city’s administrative center where the proceedings are taking place. As well as giving rise to self-censorship among the journalists, this spiral of fear and lack of trust has started to silence the AUC victims, who had renounced their anonymity in order to demand truth and reparation.
The FLIPYS alliance - Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) and Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) - is the author of this report. Please acknowledge this on circulating it.
See report here.
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Telesur television reporter released form prison, still under investigation for “terrorism”
After reviewing the arrest warrant against Muñoz issued by the Third Special Prosecutor's Office of Cartegena, the prosecutor general decided that the evidence against the journalist was insufficient to justify his detention.
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Launching of Guillermo Cano university chair among activities marking 20th anniversary of ‘El Espectador” editor’s murder, still unpunished
Twenty years later, Guillermo Cano's murder is still unpunished
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Paramilitary’s resurgence threatening free expression, international community demands action from authorities
President Álvaro Uribe Vélez President of the Republic Palacio de Nariño Carrera 8 No. 7-26 Bogotá, Colombia
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