The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) asked to the US Embassy in Colombia to reconsider the visa grant to journalist Hollman Felipe Morris because its denial could put him in a state of vulnerability before antagonistic groups. (more…)
Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana. Photo Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana. Photo Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Colombia will celebrate the Day of the Journalist today with a record of 130 violations to the Press Fredom, according to Maria Teresa Ronderos, director of Semana.com. The number, however, is inferior of what it was in 2007 in 32 cases. The information is provided by “Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa” (Foundation for the Freedom of Press) that is going to publish a report on the matter this month.
Ronderos said that at least it is possible to say that no journalist was killed in 2008 by reason of his/her profession, as it was in former years. It is said that in the last 30 years, 130 journalists have been assassinated for their work. But the journalist of Semana, the Colombian magazine, underlined there were cases of threats and public officials were the main actors either giving degrading treatment or making obstruction of investigations. Rondero pointed that mayors, councilors and other members of the State, bit or insulted journalists when they published something that was of their dislike. (more…)
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