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A REPORT FROM THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
A decade of violence against journalists under the microscope
157 journalists were killed for work related reasons between 1995 and 2005 in 19 different countries of the area1. Most of them were in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
12/03/08
By Miguel Gonzalez / Seinforma Canada Correspondent
Bogota - Between 1995 and 2005 there were 75 cases of journalists murdered, this is to say the 47% of the area murders. Only 7 cases “have some sort of sentence”2 the rest are still unpunished.
In Brazil, out of the 23 cases of journalists murdered only 9 of them have a sentence and in Mexico out of 20 cases only 4 have sentence.
The figures were shown by the CIDH within the N°74 Congress of the International organization PEN, that had it session in the capital of Colombia.
With this regards the CIDH stress that in general “the investigations of these murders have been extremely slow. Most of the investigations present serious flaws, they reach obstacles that forbid the clearing of the facts to reach a sentence”.
According to this study, the 32 cases that do have a sentence, this sentence have not become effective and have not engaged all the people responsible, neither all the perpetrators not the masterminds.”
Also the speaker, Ignacio J. Alvarez, pointed out that in The Americas there are “more subtle ways of affecting the freedom of speech, for example the criminal proceedings against the communicators, the assignment of official publicity as a price or a punishment according to the editorial line of the media, the official pressure, the random assignment or revocation of radio transmission frequencies, the discrimination in accessing the official sources of information and the pluralism that derives in monopolies, or ascending concentration of the ownership of communication medias, whether from the State, individuals or enterprises.”3
The subject is explained in “El precio del Silencio. Abusos de publicidad y otras formar de censura indirecta en América Latina” (“The cost of the silence. Publicity abuse and other forms of indirect censorship in Latin America”) published this year by the Civil Right Association (ADC), it’s noted that “according to measures taken in 2005, 2006 and 2007 the government of the Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe was assigning regular and suspiciously high publicity to the economic newspaper La República, which usually is in favor of the government politics but it is not one of the most read newspapers.”
In 2007 the municipal government of Barranquilla gave approximately a 34% of the publicity budget of the first three month period of the year to two radio journalists even though they had low level of audience.
1 Inter American Committee for Human Rights, OEA, Press Communications about the especial investigation of the journalists murdered.. Washington, D.C., March 27th, 2008 [on line] <http://www.cidh.org/Relatoria/showarticle.asp?artID=724&lID=2>
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By Miguel Gonzalez / Seinforma Canada Correspondent
Bogota - Between 1995 and 2005 there were 75 cases of journalists murdered, this is to say the 47% of the area murders. Only 7 cases “have some sort of sentence”2 the rest are still unpunished.
In Brazil, out of the 23 cases of journalists murdered only 9 of them have a sentence and in Mexico out of 20 cases only 4 have sentence.
The figures were shown by the CIDH within the N°74 Congress of the International organization PEN, that had it session in the capital of Colombia.
With this regards the CIDH stress that in general “the investigations of these murders have been extremely slow. Most of the investigations present serious flaws, they reach obstacles that forbid the clearing of the facts to reach a sentence”.
According to this study, the 32 cases that do have a sentence, this sentence have not become effective and have not engaged all the people responsible, neither all the perpetrators not the masterminds.”
Also the speaker, Ignacio J. Alvarez, pointed out that in The Americas there are “more subtle ways of affecting the freedom of speech, for example the criminal proceedings against the communicators, the assignment of official publicity as a price or a punishment according to the editorial line of the media, the official pressure, the random assignment or revocation of radio transmission frequencies, the discrimination in accessing the official sources of information and the pluralism that derives in monopolies, or ascending concentration of the ownership of communication medias, whether from the State, individuals or enterprises.”3
The subject is explained in “El precio del Silencio. Abusos de publicidad y otras formar de censura indirecta en América Latina” (“The cost of the silence. Publicity abuse and other forms of indirect censorship in Latin America”) published this year by the Civil Right Association (ADC), it’s noted that “according to measures taken in 2005, 2006 and 2007 the government of the Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe was assigning regular and suspiciously high publicity to the economic newspaper La República, which usually is in favor of the government politics but it is not one of the most read newspapers.”
In 2007 the municipal government of Barranquilla gave approximately a 34% of the publicity budget of the first three month period of the year to two radio journalists even though they had low level of audience.
1 Inter American Committee for Human Rights, OEA, Press Communications about the especial investigation of the journalists murdered.. Washington, D.C., March 27th, 2008 [on line] <http://www.cidh.org/Relatoria/showarticle.asp?artID=724&lID=2>
2 Idem
3 Idem
There are other crimes against the freedom of speech that sometimes are ignored: during the last few years the Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe, has assigned regular and suspiciously high publicity to the economic newspaper La República. Also the information monopoly, El Tiempo, property of the Vicepresident and of the Defense Minister is the principal media support. (Photo-montage Seinforma Canada)
