Colombia

The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed alarm at a new report alleging that Colombian military intelligence officials carried out an extensive monitoring operation targeting more than 130 individuals, including more than 30 journalists.

The issue of violence against journalists who cover organised crime in border areas requires effective and coordinated transnational cooperation. With this in mind, the IACHR proposed that Ecuador and Columbia provide a joint response in the case of the “El Comercio” reporting team. Many lessons have been learned.

Freedom of expression experts in the Americas explain why the case of the courageous journalist Jineth Bedoya represents a historic opportunity for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to set a precedent regarding violence against women journalists and the duty of states to provide protection as well as prevent and investigate such crimes.

The IAPA and the RFK Human Rights feel that the Colombian government complied with one resolution of the court ruling, concerning the holding of a public act of recognition of international responsibility in the presence of 18 members of the Carvajal family.

Ríos left Colombia after at least three lawmakers circulated a photograph on Twitter that wrongly identified him as “New York Times” Andes bureau chief, Nicholas Casey

IAPA President María Elvira Domínguez said, “We are pleased that after so many years of seeking justice in the case of Nelson [Carvajal] and his family members we will be witnesses and part of a ceremony in which there will be recognized the need to obtain justice for cases such as this one not to occur again.”

Eight years in jail and a US$327,000 fine. That’s the penalty biology student Diego Gómez was facing before he was found not guilty of criminal copyright infringement charges.

Colombian radio journalist Nelson Carvajal Carvajal exposed local corruption; he was murdered in 1998 and his killers enjoy impunity. On 22 and 23 August 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard Carvajal’s case in Costa Rica, which IAPA had called “a milestone in the fight against impunity”

The case could be of crucial importance as a judicial precedent and source of legal resources to achieve similar results in other cases.

In Colombia a powerful fight against online gender violence is underway, using a tool destined to become a movement in its own right.

Almost seven months ago, journalists Javier Ortega, Paul Rivas, and Efrain Segarra were abducted and killed at the border between Ecuador and Colombia. A team of 20 reporters investigated what happened.

His colleagues said that he had been working for 15 years at the radio station and that he was dedicated to disseminating community issues and the needs of the local population. It is not known if he had received death threats.

The alliance will seek to prove that impunity will not win, and that it is possible to work “in real time” for justice.

In a historic verdict, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held the Colombian state responsible for the 1998 death of journalist Nelson Carvajal. To better understand this groundbreaking ruling we spoke with lawyer Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), affiliated with the Organization of American States (OAS).

Uribe’s supporters have showered the cartoonist with insults, tried to take him to court, and now have called for him to be assassinated.

Over 500 Ecuadorean journalists and rights organizations have signed a letter calling for the governments of Colombia and Ecuador to take immediate action to protect a team of journalists abducted by militants on their mutual border.