(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 30 September 2004 IAPA press release: IAPA condemns attack against journalist in Dominican Republic Miami (September 30, 2004) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned yesterday an attack in the Dominican Republic against journalist Euri Cabral, and asked authorities to push forward investigations in order to find those […]
(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 30 September 2004 IAPA press release:
IAPA condemns attack against journalist in Dominican Republic
Miami (September 30, 2004) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned yesterday an attack in the Dominican Republic against journalist Euri Cabral, and asked authorities to push forward investigations in order to find those responsible, bring them to justice and punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
The chairman of the IAPA’s Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, Rafael Molina Morillo, declared that “the attack against Cabral creates a wave of concern over the safety of journalists and the media that take critical positions on the country’s problems.”
Journalist Euri Cabral, director of Channel 23 and commentator on the radio program “El Gobierno de la Mañana” (This Morning in Government), was attacked as he was returning home in his vehicle on the evening of 29 September by men who fired 10 gunshots and fled on a motorcycle. Cabral and a colleague from his work who was with him at the time were not harmed.
Molina, from the Dominican newspaper El Nacional, believes that this aggression is also an attack on freedom of expression because these types of acts can create a climate of insecurity for the practice of journalism.
On September 14, journalist Juan Andújar was killed after being shot in the head in Azua, in the southern part of the Dominican Republic, and other journalists were attacked and threatened.
