(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned about the disappearance of Enrique Galeano, who works with the station Radio Azotey in the city of Hortequa, located in Concepción department of central Paraguay. The Paraguayan Journalists’ Union (Sindicato de Periodistas Paraguayos, SPP) said nothing has been heard from the 51-year-old journalist since 4 February […]
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned about the disappearance of Enrique Galeano, who works with the station Radio Azotey in the city of Hortequa, located in Concepción department of central Paraguay.
The Paraguayan Journalists’ Union (Sindicato de Periodistas Paraguayos, SPP) said nothing has been heard from the 51-year-old journalist since 4 February 2006.
“We strongly urge the local and national authorities to deploy all the necessary resources to find Enrique Galeano”, said RSF. “We also call on them to guarantee journalists’ safety more effectively”, the organisation added.
The missing journalist’s wife, Bernardina Quintana, said Galeano had received death threats, almost certainly from the local authorities, whose criminal activities he had exposed. A month ago, as a result of the threats, he was given police protection for five days at his home in Yby Yau, a city nearby Horqueta.
