Colombia - Death threats, smears against animal rights journalist
Colombia - Death threats, smears against animal rights journalist
Source: Reporters Without Borders - Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:40 AM
Reporters Without Borders calls on the relevant authorities to provide Cartagena-based freelance journalist Eva Durán with immediate protection. Durán, who is also an animal rights campaigner, has had to go into hiding in another region after receiving threats on 18 January.
She also reports being the target of a smear campaign by media that are under the thumb of local authorities and powerful entities.
"Threats of the kind Durán has received must be taken seriously in a country like Colombia," Reporters Without Borders said.
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Cartagena lies on Colombia's Caribbean coast, a region that attracts a great deal of tourism. It is also a stronghold of paramilitary groups that have invested the proceeds from their criminal activities in the region.
More:
http://www.trust.org/item/20140121102150-tmptg/
