Manuel Estrada Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Costa Rican court strikes down tracking of daily’s calls

April 9, 2014 12:26 PM EDT

The constitutional chamber of the Costa Rican Supreme Court ruled on March 21, 2014, that the government’s secret monitoring of phone records of the San José-based daily Diario Extra as part of a leak investigation was unconstitutional, according to news reports.

Costa Rica must investigate tracking of daily’s phone calls

January 22, 2014 5:31 PM EST

New York, January 22, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for a full investigation into reports that Costa Rican officials secretly monitored the phone records of the San José-based daily Diario Extra as part of a leak investigation.