Chile

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 December 2006, a group of supporters of the late former dictator Augusto Pinochet reacted violently against journalists who were covering the details of the retired general’s death. Thousands of militants who were stationed outside Santiago de Chile’s Military Hospital, where the former dictator had died, threw coins and bottles at the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 27 July 2006, Arica’s supervisory judge (juez de garantía), Francisco Vargas Vera, forbade Mega TV channel cameraman, Julio Urquhart, to tape the public hearing he was presiding over, in spite of there being other people taping the proceedings who were not journalists. The cameraman recorded the moment in which the judge ordered […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 31 May 2006 CPJ press release: Chilean journalists injured, detained during student strike New York, May 31, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Tuesday’s attacks by local police against six Chilean reporters covering clashes between security forces and high school students during a massive strike demanding reforms […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 1 May 2006, Associated Press photographer Santiago Llanquín and Danny Alveal, a photographer for the newspaper “Las Últimas Noticias”, were wounded by persons while they were covering a march organized by the workers’ union Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) to commemorate May Day in Santiago de Chile. According to witnesses, the aggression […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF condemns the 26 November 2005 attack on a Chilevisión television crew, that had gone to a private party in Santiago hoping to film a celebrity participant. The reporters were beaten by some of the guests outside the house. “It is very important that those responsible for this gratuitous and violent attack should […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has condemned the threatening graffiti and swastikas that were spray painted on the outside of the studios of TVN, in the central city of Valparaíso. The incident occurred on 15 July 2005, after the national television station broadcast a programme about Chile’s neo-Nazi groups. “This aggressive and sickening ideology, the eternal enemy […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed concern for Pedro Cayuqueo Millaqueo, director of the Mapuche magazine “Azkintuwe”, who has been imprisoned in Traiguén, southern Chile, since 2 June 2005. This is the second time that the journalist has been incarcerated over the same charges. Cayuqueo is also an activist who has fought for the return of […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 13 June 2005 IAPA press release: IAPA champions access to information and calls for elimination of insult laws in Chile Santiago, Chile (June 13, 2005) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today urged Chilean congressmen to approve a law on access to public information, eliminate insult laws, and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CHILE: Radio reporter beaten by national police New York, May 11, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists said today it was alarmed by reports that Chilean radio reporter Paola Briceño Verdina was beaten and improperly detained by national police agents after covering a student protest […]

(WPFC/IFEX) – The following is a 21 January 2005 WPFC letter to Senate President Hernán Larraín Fernández: Washington, USA, Jan. 21, 2005 His Excellency Sen. Hernán Larraín Fernández President of the Senate Valparaíso, Chile Your Excellency: For more than two years, World Press Freedom Committee (http://www.wpfc.org) has been urging the Chilean Congress to pass a […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed its concern over a 28 September 2004 robbery at the premises of the bi-monthly magazine “El Periodista”. “Since the robbery could be linked to articles published in the magazine, we are calling for a thorough investigation in order to identify and punish those responsible (. . .) We are particularly […]

(PERIODISTAS/IFEX) – On 10 August 2004, Alberto Luengo, director of the government-owned “La Nación” newspaper, was fired. Luengo was reportedly dismissed for his newspaper’s coverage of a paedophile case that has implicated high-level political figures. Evidence provided in the so-called “Caso Spiniak” has implicated the mayor of Valparaíso and a senator in an abuse of […]

(PERIODISTAS/IFEX) – On 26 July 2004, Paulina de Allendes-Salazar and Marcelo Simonetti, of Televisión Nacional station, and Emilio Sutherland, a journalist for Channel 13 station, appeared before a Santiago criminal court in connection with their coverage of the so-called “Caso Spiniak”, a paedophile case that implicates high-level political figures. In October 2003, businessman Claudio Spiniak […]

RSF has condemned the confiscation of two computer hard drives belonging to the online newspaper “El Mostrador” ( http://www.elmostrador.cl ) on 27 April 2004. The seizure was ordered under an anti-terrorist law by a judge investigating the 24 March bombing of the Brazilian Consulate in Santiago. The equipment was returned the next day. Police seized […]

(AMARC/IFEX) – In a 7 April 2004 press conference, AMARC reacted to 21 complaints launched by the Telecommunications Sub-Secretariat (Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones, SUBTEL) against radio stations that may be operating “outside the legal framework.” The organisation proposed that the regulations governing radio transmission be revised and the way frequencies are allocated be changed. According to […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 11 December 2003, Judge Gabriela Pérez, of the Santiago Appeals Court, charged several Chilevisión television station executives and journalists with violating Article 161-A of the Criminal Code. Chilevisión Executive Director Jaime de Aguirre, news producer Alejandro Guillier, news editor Patricio Caldichoury, journalist Fernando Reyes, and production manager Raúl Poblete face charges for […]