JANUARY 7, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 María Laura Benítez, Multimedios Nuevo Mundo THREATENED Benítez, a journalist for the media company Multimedios Nuevo Mundo based out of the eastern city of Colón, was threatened with death after alleging police abuse during the Canal 8 news program “Nuevo Mundo,” according to press reports.
DECEMBER 26, 2006 Posted: December 29, 2006 Laura Rómoli, Agencia Nova ATTACKED, THREATENED Rómoli, a reporter for Agencia Nova, was attacked by a woman and two men who burst into the news agency’s office days after a report on alleged abuses at a local orphanage in La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires province.
DECEMBER 20, 2006 Posted: December 27, 2006 Eduardo Manrique, Diario de Cuyo ATTACKED Unidentified individuals broke into Manrique’s home in the northwestern city of San Juan early in the morning of December 20 and set the journalist’s car on fire, reported Diario de Cuyo, for which Manrique directs the police section.
New York, September 29, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by death threats against a media company owner and a prominent columnist, both harsh critics of President Néstor Kirchner’s administration. CPJ today called on Argentine authorities to immediately denounce the threats and to launch a thorough investigation. Joaquín Morales Solá, columnist for the daily…
JUNE 30, 2006 Posted: July 17, 2006 Nicolás Revello, Tiempo Sur ATTACKED Revello, a photographer for the Río Gallegos-based daily Tiempo Sur in the southern province of Santa Cruz, was attacked by local security forces while covering the arrest of soccer fans who were protesting after the national team was disqualified from the 2006 World…
New York, June 16, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by repeated attacks and death threats against a radio journalist in Argentina who criticized a local mayor for corruption. Carlos Furman told CPJ that he began receiving death threats in February last year after he accused Domingo Daniel Rossi, mayor of Santa Helena town…
New York, May 23, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by reports that unidentified hackers have broken into the e-mail accounts of several prominent journalists and distributed their private conversations with sources, including public officials, to the reporters’ contacts. On May 11, Daniel Santoro, a senior investigative reporter with Argentina’s largest daily Clarín, reported…
MAY 8, 2006 Posted: May 12, 2006 Hugo Basso, La Tribuna ATTACKED Basso, director of the Rufino-based weekly La Tribuna, was attacked by a local official after taking his photograph at a municipal meeting in the central province of Santa Fé, according to news reports and an interview with the journalist.