09 July 2007
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.

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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.

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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.

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02 February 2007
Liberal politician alleged to be mastermind of journalist’s murder still free five years later

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30 January 2007
Newspaper in Barranquilla forbidden to report on case of alleged municipal corruption and paramilitary ties

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22 January 2007
FLIP concerned about lack of clarity on media’s right to cover hearings on paramilitary crimes

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11 January 2007
Telesur television reporter released form prison, still under investigation for “terrorism”

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22 December 2006
Launching of Guillermo Cano university chair among activities marking 20th anniversary of ‘El Espectador” editor’s murder, still unpunished

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04 December 2006
Paramilitary’s resurgence threatening free expression, international community demands action from authorities

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