Colombia police ‘wiretapping, shadowing and intimidating journalists’
Colombia police ‘wiretapping, shadowing and intimidating journalists’
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Dec 3, 2015
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday announced he has ordered an investigation into the alleged wiretapping and intimidation of prominent journalists by the National Police.
Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre announced the investigation after complaints by prominent journalist Vicky Davila, editor-in-chief of radio station LA FM, claiming that she, “her family and her journalistic team” were followed by spies, threatened and had their communication wiretapped.
Caracol Radio journalist Claudia Morales, also a columnist for newspaper El Espectador, said she had also been the victim of illegal spying and has received “strange messages” to both her work and private email indicating she was under police surveillance.
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Additionally, “I received emails on my Gmail, which is personal, … (saying) that some members of the police have information on my family and my whereabouts.”
Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombias-police-wiretapping-and-intimidating-journalists/
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