Letter to Colombian president urging respect for work of journalists
Letter to Colombian president urging respect for work of journalists
Published on Thursday 22 August 2013.
Reporters Without Borders has registered more than 20 attacks on journalists by both police and demonstrators during a national strike by farm workers, miners and public sector employees that began on 19 August.
As a result, Reporters Without Borders wrote to President Juan Manuel Santos today voicing concern about the ability of media personnel to work safely and calling on the authorities take whatever measures are necessary to protect reporters during demonstrations.
President Juan Manuel Santos Casa de Nariño Presidential Palace Bogotá, Colombia
Dear President Santos,
Reporters Without Borders, an international organization for defence of freedom of information, is writing to you again to express its concern about the increase in physical attacks on journalists with various media. Journalists continue to be in constant of danger of vilification from all sides for covering a particular event or for covering it in a way contrary to the interests of their assailants.
At least 20 cases of attacks on journalists, especially journalists with alternative news media, were registered in a total of eight departments during the first 48 hours of the general strike called by a coalition of various civil society sectors.
More:
http://en.rsf.org/colombia-letter-to-colombian-president-22-08-2013,45093.htmlj