BOLIVIA: Reporter attacked while covering protests
JANUARY 12, 2007 Wilson Mencacha, ATB ATTACKED Unidentified assailants attacked Mencacha, a cameraman for the La Paz-based television station ATB, while he was covering clashes between government supporters and antigovernment demonstrators in the central city of Cochabamba, about 140 miles (230 kilometers) southeast of La Paz.
CPJ, IPYS cite ‘lack of transparency’ in Venezuelan broadcast case
Caracas, Venezuela, January 12, 2007—A joint delegation of the Committee to Protect Journalists and Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) said today it is alarmed about the lack of transparency in President Hugo Chávez Frias’ decision not to renew the broadcast concession of the privately owned television station RCTV.
In Bolivia, 11 journalists attacked while covering protests
New York, January 10, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns attacks by protesters and police against at least 11 Bolivian reporters, photographers, and camera operators covering Monday’s violent demonstrators in the central city of Cochabamba. Thousands of demonstrators-including members of the ruling leftist party Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), labor unions, and indigenous groups-took to the…
Death threats follow allegations of police abuse
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.
Journalist attacked after report on abuses at local orphanage
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.
Police reporters car attacked
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.
Two journalists sentenced on criminal defamation charges
December 13, 2006 Posted: December 27, 2006 Óscar Olavarría Saldaña, El Oriente Pedro Salazar Angulo, El Oriente LEGAL ACTION The Maynas Sixth Criminal Court in the northeastern province of Loreto sentenced Salazar, director of the local daily El Oriente, and Olavarría, editorial director for the Iquitos region, to a suspended one-year prison term, and fined…