The
Colombian Supreme Court announced on August 27, 2012, that it would drop a defamation
complaint
against prominent journalist Cecilia Orozco Tascón, according to news reports. Five days
earlier, the court released a statement saying it would
file charges against Orozco, who writes a widely read column in the Bogotá
daily El Espectador. The
court also criticized a column by another journalist, María Jimena Duzán,
which was published in the weekly Semana magazine.
Bogotá, August 27, 2012--Colombia's Supreme Court must immediately
drop an unprecedented criminaldefamation
complaint against a prominent local columnist who questioned recent actions
by the court, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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