Journalist’s rights organization Reporters Without Borders has asked Colombia’s presidential candidates to address problems facing the press in Colombia, such as threats to freedom of speech.
Colombia, while still being one of the most dangerous places in the world to work as a journalist, made some important forward steps in 2012 according to a “state of…
The number of threats against Colombian journalists this year has more than doubled compared to the same period last year, Caracol Radio reported. According to the Foundation for the…
The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) has scheduled a march to protest recurrent death threats made against journalists by criminal bands. According to Spanish news agency EFE, members of FECOLPER,…
Three journalists were murdered in Colombia so far this year, according to figures from Swiss NGO Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). The death toll for the first six months of 2010…
International NGO Reporters Without Borders called for Colombia’s President-elect Juan Manuel Santos to “break with the practices” that led government security agency DAS to conduct illegal surveillance and wiretapping of journalists,…
Bogota’s mayor Samuel Moreno Rojas called for the International Criminal Court to investigate the illegal wiretapping activities of Colombian security agency DAS, CM& reported Wednesday. Speaking after a meeting with…
A new report by UNESCO, the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, highlights threats to journalists in Colombia, noting that four reporters were killed in the country in the last…
The former intelligence director of DAS, Jorge Lagos, told Colombia’s Supreme Court on Monday that under the management of Jorge Noguera the government security agency had sent letters designed to…