Chile

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 23 March 2001 CPJ press release: CPJ SUBMITS AMICUS BRIEF IN CHILEAN CRIMINAL DEFAMATION CASE New York, March 23, 2001 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the case of Chilean journalist Alejandra Matus. […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – The director of the daily “El Metropolitano”, Enrique Alvarado, business editor Javier Urrutia and photojournalist Mireya Muñoz were questioned for three hours by the Investigative Police in connection with the case in which they are accused of violating Article 6 (b) of the State Security Law (Ley de Seguridad Interior del Estado, LSIE) […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 14 March 2001 Human Rights Watch press release: Chile Trails the Continent on Free Expression Issues Reform of Antiquated Laws Urgently Needed (Santiago, March 14, 2001) — Chile’s record on freedom of expression has improved little since the end of military rule, Human Rights Watch charged in a report […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a 14 June 2000 WAN press release: Paris, 14 June 2000 For immediate release Chile Urged to Encourage Press Freedom The World Association of Newspapers has urged Chilean President Ricardo Lagos to resubmit a new Press Law that was rejected by the country’s legislature, apparently because it would remove politicians’ […]

(Washington, DC, April 4, 2000) — Human Rights Watch announced today that an exiled Chilean journalist, Alejandra Matus, is among the recipients of this year’s Hellman-Hammett Awards, given to writers who have been victims of persecution. Prominent writers and journalists from all over the world have been recipients of this award since its establishment over […]

In a letter to Ricardo Lagos shortly before he assumed the presidency, RSF expressed its “profound concern over repeated threats to press freedom due to the application of the State Security Law”. Since the Chilean parliament is preparing to adopt a new press law, RSF asked the future representative to “use his veto power if […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 8 March and 22 February 2000** (HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: PARDON FOR JOURNALIST UNJUSTLY CONVICTED IN CHILE (Washington, D.C., March 8, 2000)– President Eduardo Frei should grant a pardon to journalist José Ale Aravena, who was convicted last month of “insulting” the former president […]

**Updates IFEX alert of 22 February 2000** (RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Supreme Court President Hernán Alvarez, RSF stated that the “sentencing of José Ale to 541 days’ (eighteen months) imprisonment for insults is deplorable”. The journalist was sentenced under the Chilean Law on State Security. RSF believes that the punishment imposed on Ale […]

Journalist José Ale, of the “La Tercera” daily of Santiago de Chile, was sentenced to 541 days in prison by Chile’s Supreme Court. The case was initiated by Judge Servando Jordán, a Supreme Court minister, because he was offended by a January 1998 article. The article in question was written by Ale and referred to […]

(Periodistas/IFEX) – Periodistas has learned from María Elena Ansieta, the manager of Planeta Publishing Company in Chile, that on the afternoon of 18 June 1999, the Santiago Court of Appeal granted interim release to Bartolo Ortiz and Carlos Orellana, Planeta’s CEO and chief editor respectively. Ortiz and Orellana had been detained since 16 June. **Updates […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ letter to the President of the Republic of Chile condemning the arrest and indictment of the CEO and the chief editor of Planeta Publishing Company: **Updates IFEX alerts of 17 June, 5 May, 27 April and 15 April 1999** 17 June 1999 His Excellency Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle President […]

(Periodistas/IFEX) – Further to the failed attempt to arrest journalist Alejandra Matus, author of “The Black Book of Chilean Justice” (“El libro negro de la justicia chilena”), Bartolo Ortíz and Carlos Orellana, manager and editor, respectively, of the publishing house Planeta Chile, were arrested in Santiago on 16 June 1999. The order for the arrest […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – In Lima, Peru, the Secretary of International Relations of the Chilean College of Journalists, Paulino Ramirez Quintana, denounced the censorship of Chilean journalist Alejandra Matus Acuna’s publication “El Libro Negro de la Justicia Chilena” (the Black Book of Chilean Justice). The book was confiscated and prohibited from being distributed by Civil Police officials, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 April 1999 CPJ letter to Chilean President Edouardo Frei protesting the prosecution of investigative journalist Alejandra Matus and the confiscation of her book “The Black Book of Chilean Justice”: **Updates IFEX alert of 15 April 1999** April 22, 1999 His Excellency Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle President of the Republic […]

(HRW/IFEX) – On 14 April 1999, a Chilean judge ordered the immediate confiscation of all copies of “The Black Book of Chilean Justice” by journalist Alejandra Matus. Police, acting on the orders of a Santiago appeals court, raided the warehouse of the publishers, Planeta, and made off with the entire stock of the book, which […]

HASH(0x8960ba8) (WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Arrest of Chilean Journalist Draws Protest The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) protested to the Chilean government Wednesday against the arrest of journalist Paula Afani and a police raid on her home and office. Mrs. Afani was detained on Monday (18 January) in the newsroom […]