Articles by Foundation for Press Freedom – FLIP
CAPSULE REPORT: Joint mission highlights dangers for journalists working in Valle del Cauca
(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 6 September 2005 joint capsule report by RSF, FLIP, IPYS, IFJ and CPJ: Fear kills off the news in the Valle del Cauca Reporters Without Borders and four other press freedom groups went on a joint fact-finding commission to investigate two years of attacks on press freedom in the […]
INFORME CÁPSULA: Informe de la FLIP sobre el periodismo en Barranquilla
(FLIP/IFEX) – Lo que sigue es un informe de la FLIP: El periodismo en Barranquilla: marcado por la pauta Estudio piloto elaborado por Patricia Iriarte para la Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa, FLIP
FARC guerrillas blow up radio transmission towers in Cauca
(FLIP/IFEX) – On 5 September 2005, members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) used dynamite to blow up the transmission towers of the Caracol radio station and the Colmundo radio network. The towers were located in Usenda, Silvia municipality, in eastern Cauca, about 40 minutes from Popayán. Caracol journalists […]
Camera operator assaulted by police
(FLIP/IFEX) – On 2 September 2005, journalist Patricia Uribe and camera operator Germán Palma, of the “Noticias Uno” television programme, were harassed and assaulted by officers of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, while covering a story on squatters displaced by the civil war. The incident occurred in the Kennedy neighbourhood in southern Bogotá. Uribe told FLIP […]
President of Valle del Cauca Journalists’ Association assassinated
(FLIP/IFEX) – The following is a 6 September 2005 FLIP press release: The Foundation for Press Freedom laments the assassination of Guillermo Cabrera Medina, president of the Valle del Cauca Journalists’ Association. The exact circumstances of his murder are still unclear and are under investigation. The journalist was reported missing on 5 September. His family […]
Paramilitary threats force Barrancabermeja journalist into exile
(FLIP/IFEX) – Journalist Alfredo Serrano, who left Barrancabermeja, a petroleum port in Santander department, in late 2004 due to threats, went into exile on 29 August 2005 because it has been impossible for him to resume his work as a journalist in the city. In October 2004, Serrano announced on Radio Uno, where he was […]
Journalists concerned about bill to increase penalties for insult and defamation offences
(FLIP/IFEX) – The following is a 24 August 2005 FLIP press release: Journalists concerned by bill to increase penalties for insult and defamation offences FLIP is concerned about the introduction of a bill to increase the penalties for crimes of insult and defamation committed by editors and producers, journalists, columnists and media outlets in the […]
FLIP calls for investigation of death threats; exiled journalist awarded special scholarship by Stanford University
(FLIP/IFEX) – Death threats against “Noticias Uno” television news programme director Daniel Coronell, his wife, television announcer María Cristina Uribe, and their daughter have forced the journalist and his family to leave the country. Although Coronell provided evidence that he himself obtained regarding the probable source of the attacks, investigations by the Prosecutor General’s Office […]