Foundation for Press Freedom – FLIP

(FLIP/IFEX) – The following is an abridged translation of an 8 April 2009 FLIP press release: FLIP welcomes the recent verdicts in the cases of two assassinated journalists, Elacio Murillo Mosquera and Henry Rojas Monje. On 17 March 2009, a Quibdó criminal court sentenced Franklin Isnel Díaz Mosquera, known as “Juancho”, to 34 years in […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – José Granados Fernández, the editor of the “El Heraldo” newspaper’s judicial and investigations section, in Barranquilla, Atlántico department, on Colombia’s northern coast, has said that he received death threats on 2 April 2009. According to Granados, an unidentified caller phoned the daily’s offices and told a female employee, “Tell Granados to be careful […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – On 8 March 2009, journalist Denis Contreras and photographer Luis Rodríguez, of “El Heraldo” newspaper in Barranquilla, were assaulted and threatened by a group of people connected with the tourism industry in Puerto Colombia, Atlántico. The assailants were apparently not pleased with some of the paper’s articles on a historic wharf which had […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – A worrisome situation has arisen since October 2008 in the city of Cúcuta, Norte de Santander department, in northeastern Colombia, where journalists have been insulted and assaulted when they are covering judicial issues. This situation was brought to the attention of FLIP by various journalists and photojournalists from the “La Opinión” newspaper. The […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – The following is a 9 February 2009 FLIP press release: Press Release – Report on the state of Freedom of Press in Colombia in 2008 The Foundation for Press Freedom (La Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa, FLIP) is presenting its annual report “Threats and Stigmatization: Invisible intimidation of the press”, about the […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – Journalists Hollman Morris, director of the “Contravía” television programme and a correspondent for foreign media outlets and cameraman Leonardo Acevado and journalist Camilo Raigozo of the weekly “Voz,” were temporarily detained and harassed by members of the army who demanded that they hand over their journalistic material. According to what Morris and Raigozo […]

(CERIGUA/IFEX) – The following is a 29 January 2009 joint action by nine IFEX members: Latin American organisations express concern over freedom of expression situation in Guatemala Guatemala City, 29 January 2009. The signatories listed below, all of whom are IFEX members and participants in the “Regional meeting of Latin American freedom of expression organisations” […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – On 10 December 2008, two journalists were assaulted by market vendors who were being evicted from a public space in the centre of the city of Ibagué, Tolima department. The incident took place at approximately 6:45 p.m. (local time). Throughout the day, riot police had been evicting the vendors, which resulted in a […]