Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed about legislation currently before the Argentine Senate. The bill proposes adding three articles to the Penal Code that would criminalize operating a radio station without a license, putting at risk the thousands of stations currently broadcasting without permission.
New York, September 17, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) sent a letter today to Juan Carlos Maqueda, provisional president of the Argentine Senate, expressing concern about legislation that the Senate is scheduled to debate tomorrow. The bill proposes adding three articles to the Penal Code that would criminalize operating a radio station without a…
Wile Argentina fell deeper into economic crisis during 2001, and President Fernando de la Rúa resigned in disgrace as a result, the media worked largely unhindered. But the worsening economy hurt advertising and sales, and the Supreme Court dealt damaging blows to press freedom.
New York, November 15, 2001—Argentine journalist and press freedom advocate Horacio Verbitsky this morning petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, D.C., to suspend an Argentine court decision upholding former president Carlos Saúl Menem’s right to privacy. The Supreme Court of Argentina ruled that the newsmagazine NOTICIAS violated Menem’s privacy by reporting…
New York, October 4, 2001—In a major step backward for press freedom in Argentina, the Supreme Court last week upheld a lower court ruling against the weekly newsmagazine NOTICIAS. According to the judgment, NOTICIAS violated former president Carlos Saúl Menem’s right to privacy by reporting on his extramarital relationship with Martha Meza, a former schoolteacher…
IN A FRUSTRATING YEAR FOR PRESS FREEDOM in Argentina, a proposed bill that would have eliminated criminal penalties for defamation cases involving public officials foundered after local journalists implicated members of the Senate in a major bribery scandal. Senators who had supported the proposed bill quickly withdrew their support. The long battle to reform Argentina’s…
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in the Americas New York, June 13, 2000 —– Prominent journalists, lawyers, and academics from throughout the Americas, who gathered June 8-9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at a conference hosted by CPJ and the Argentine press group Periodistas, called for the repeal of criminal-defamation laws and…