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Government scraps plan to force journalists to inform police

Published on 23 January 2012Read

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Polarization

Three news websites hacked, newspaper publisher bombed

Published on 10 November 2011Read

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More media freedom violations feared in protests called for today and tomorrow

Reporters Without Borders shares the concern that the Chilean Union of Photographers and Cameramen has expressed about the possibility of more (...)

Published on 18 October 2011 Read

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Bill would criminalize protests, turn journalists into police informers

Reporters Without Borders urges the Chilean congress to reject a government bill which, in response to a ninth-month-old wave of protests by (...)

Published on 6 October 2011 Read

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Mounting abuses and violence against journalists amid continuing student protests

As a four-month-old wave of student protests continues with no sign of letting up, Reporters Without Borders is worried by the increasingly (...)

Published on 15 September 2011 Read

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Citizen activism challenges protected media oligopoly

“A new Chile is born,” said President Sebastián Piñera as he personally welcomed 33 miners at the surface after their spectacular rescue from a (...)

Published on 17 August 2011 Read

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Calm debate on environment needed after charges withdrawn against photographer

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the withdrawal of charges against photographer Marcela Rodríguez, a contributor to the Mapuexpress website, (...)

Published on 24 June 2011 Read

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Court acquits filmmaker who was working with Mapuche indigenous

Reporters Without Borders welcomes Chilean documentary filmmaker Elena Varela López’s acquittal on charges of criminal association and “links with (...)

Published on 27 April 2010 Read

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Police say they have identified officer who seriously injured photographer Víctor Salas, but decline to name him

Reporters Without Borders today gave a cautious welcome to a police announcement yesterday that they have identified the officer who attacked (...)

Published on 18 July 2008 Read

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Supreme court rescinds controversial restrictions on press reporting

The supreme court has rescinded the decree it issued on 26 March restricting the movements of journalists within courthouses and their ability to (...)

Published on 2 April 2007 Read