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Cyber attack on reporter

Internet assault on investigative journalist

Published on 9 February 2011Read

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Government urged to protect newspaper editor and her children who have been getting death threats

Published on 14 April 2008Read

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New community media law gets final approval from parliament

Reporters Without Borders hails the definitive adoption of a community media law by the chamber of representatives on 12 December. The press (...)

Published on 14 December 2007 Read

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Warm welcome for Senate backing for new community media law

Reporters Without Borders today welcomed a vote in the senate yesterday approving a new law on community media which will allow for a fair and (...)

Published on 15 November 2007 Read

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Alleged drug trafficker threatens and assaults journalist

Reporters Without Borders today called for protection for journalist César Casavieja, founder and editor of the weekly Señal de alerta, who (...)

Published on 22 March 2007 Read

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Journalist threatened by soldiers “nostalgic for military dictatorship”

Reporters Without Borders today condemned death threats sent by e-mail last week to freelance journalist Alfonso Lessa by a person calling (...)

Published on 11 October 2006 Read

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Supreme Court creates dangerous precedent sentencing journalist to prison for "defamation"

Reporters Without Borders expressed concern that the Supreme Court may have set a dangerous precedent by sentencing former journalist Carlos (...)

Published on 3 October 2006 Read

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Government urged to decriminalize press offences after a journalist gets three-month jail sentence

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the three-month prison sentenced imposed on Gustavo Escanlar Patrone of the Uruguayan public TV station (...)

Published on 29 May 2006 Read

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Documents about Uruguayan and Chilean intelligence stolen from journalist

Reporters Without Borders today urged the Uruguayan government to pledge to shed light on the suspicious theft of important confidential military (...)

Published on 12 April 2006 Read

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TV and radio journalist kidnapped, beaten and threatened

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the abduction of radio and TV presenter Marcelo Borrat on 17 October in Montevideo by hooded assailants (...)

Published on 21 October 2005 Read