(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 7 December 2001 IAPA press release: IAPA requests that political propaganda law in Bolivia be repealed Miami (7 December 2001) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) asked the Bolivian Congress to repeal a recently enacted law on political propaganda that restricts press freedom and freedom of expression, as […]
(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 7 December 2001 IAPA press release:
IAPA requests that political propaganda law in Bolivia be repealed
Miami (7 December 2001) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) asked the Bolivian Congress to repeal a recently enacted law on political propaganda that restricts press freedom and freedom of expression, as well as establishes serious limitations on the financial freedom of media.
This week, the executive power passed the Electoral Code Reform Law that restricts the circulation of political propaganda to ninety days and regulates the rates that media can charge political parties for posting propaganda.
In a letter to head of Congress Enrique Toro Tejada, IAPA President Robert J. Cox, from The Post and Courier, in Charleston, South Carolina and chairman of the IAPA’s Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information Rafael Molina, from Ahora, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, stated that the reform not only restricts press freedom and freedom of information, but also free enterprise, by interfering with and trying to control private media’s financial decisions. IAPA’s authorities asked for the repeal or modification of the law.
A copy of IAPA’s letter to head of Congress Enrique Toro Tejada is included in the Spanish version of this alert. An English version is not available.
