Ecuador

The stations’ owner said that his media outlets have criticized authorities and have given the public a space to express itself.

The closure is the result of a 2011 court decision to cancel Telesangay’s contract, a decision that had political undertones.

Seventeen states from the Americas, Europe and Asia suggested that the Ecuadorian government should respect and guarantee the freedoms of the press and of expression in the country.

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The telecast interrupted Ecuavisa’s news programme and was aimed at discrediting interviewer Gabriela Baer and a report by the Simón Bolivar Andean University.

In a letter to the President of the National Assembly, Fernando Cordero Cueva, the Committee to Protect Journalists expresses its concern about a new communications bill that includes new restrictions that could limit the rights of citizens to inform and be informed.

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here [image: librexpresion] * * *RED DE MONITOREO DE AMENAZAS A LA LIBERTAD DE PRENSA* * ALERTA No. 453* *PERIODISTA DE RADIO RENUNCIA A CORRESPONSALÍA TRAS SER SOMETIDO A CENSURA* *Miércoles, 18 de abril de 2012 * El 27 marzo de 2012, el periodista y Juan Alcívar, corresponsal de […]

Attacks against the media, journalists and members of the public who were exercising their right to free expression increased, in comparison with the same time period in previous years.

President Rafael Correa made the statements in relation to a recent meeting between a government delegation, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Ricardo Patiño, and members of the IACHR, to talk about the sentence against the newspaper “El Universo”.

The authors’ attorney that the trial will continue because no legal procedure exists as a possible way to end a civil trial. “What the court has done is request that, if the process is to come to an end, that it is done according to the law”.

Orlando Pérez, editor-in-chief and feature writer of the state newspaper “El Telégrafo”, reported in his column that he has received several email death threats because of critical comments he made against the right wing political sector.

The Minister of the Interior warned he may initiate legal proceedings against Teleamazonas TV station if it does not present evidence of information, allegedly voiced during its news program, stating that the police had used teargas bombs during the marches that took place in Quito.

Máximo Barba, a correspondent for Ecuador TV, was physically assaulted and prevented from covering an indigenous march as it passed through the city of Ambato.

In the accusation filed before the town prosecutor’s office, Javier Granados detailed that Samuel Rivera hit him several times and attempted to strangle him, but was stopped by several people who were nearby.

IFEX-ALC values the pardon granted by President Rafael Correa, exempting three directors of the daily “El Universo” and a former feature writer from a sentence of three years in prison and a US$40 million fine, and refraining from pursuing further judicial action against the authors of the book “El Gran Hermano”.

Ramiro Aguilar, the journalists’ lawyer, stated in a writ presented before the Second Civil Division of the Court of Justice of Pichincha, that “there can be no pardon in this case, because there is no outstanding obligation to pay”.