Journalists killed in Ecuador since 1992
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Disrupting the Debate
April 25, 2017 8:08 AM ET
Governments use copyright laws and Twitter bots to curb criticism on social media By Alexandra Ellerbeck On July 10, 2016, Ecuadoran journalist Bernardo Abad tweeted that the former vice-president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, had not paid income taxes for the year before. A week later, Abad received a message from...
Ecuador fines seven news outlets for not reproducing Argentine newspaper story
April 24, 2017 4:55 PM ET
Bogotá, Colombia, April 24, 2017--Ecuadoran authorities should immediately annul fines imposed on seven media outlets for declining to reproduce a story published in an Argentine newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Journalist facing charges in Ecuador files for asylum in Peru
April 18, 2017 4:52 PM ET
New York, April 18, 2017--Ecuadoran journalist Fernando Villavicencio, director of the news website Focus Ecuador and a critic of outgoing President Rafael Correa, today filed a petition for political asylum in Lima, Peru. A statement from the regional press group Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) said the journalist, who fled...
Ecuadoran TV journalist receives mail bomb
February 17, 2017 2:45 PM ET
New York, February 17, 2017--The Ecuadoran National Police should swiftly bring to justice whoever sent award-winning TV journalist Janet Hinostroza a makeshift explosive device, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The attempted attack took place days before general elections scheduled for February 19....
Judge orders journalist's arrest for publishing confidential documents
November 15, 2016 5:31 PM ET
New York, November 15, 2016--An Ecuadoran judge last night approved an arrest warrant for journalist Fernando Villavicencio on charges of distributing emails sent by public officials, according to the journalist's lawyer. The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on authorities to revoke the warrant....
Ecuador reprimands journalist, TV station for investigative reports
August 9, 2016 5:28 PM ET
New York, August 9, 2016 - The Ecuadoran communications regulator should rescind all measures against the broadcaster Teleamazonas and journalist Janet Hinostroza, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Regulators yesterday sanctioned the station and the journalist for "media lynching" in relation to investigative reports into the government's purchase...
Ecuadoran news websites face harassment
May 19, 2016 11:14 AM ET
Ecuadoran news websites that published corruption allegations were the target of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on May 9, 2016, according to a joint letter Ecuadoran editors and press-freedom advocates sent to the Committee to Protect Journalists on May 13. In a DDoS attack, the attackers seek to overwhelm...
How U.S. copyright law is being used to take down Correa's critics in Ecuador
January 21, 2016 3:41 PM ET
On December 30, César Ricaurte, the executive director of Fundamedios, received a copyright complaint with the potential to close his entire website. The complaint, filed on behalf of Ecuador's communications regulator SECOM by a company called Ares Rights, ordered the independent press freedom group to remove an image of President...
Inter-American Human Rights System, campaigns against defamation laws keep journalists from jail in Americas
December 15, 2015 12:01 AM ET
When a prison guard told Ángel Santiesteban Prats that he would be released from jail on a scorching summer day in July, the Cuban independent writer and blogger decided to ignore him, brushing off the news as a cruel joke. By then, Santiesteban had already spent two years and five...