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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

Chile

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

Chile

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

Chile

Calm debate on environment needed after charges withdrawn against photographer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

Chile

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

Chile

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

Chile

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The supreme court has rescinded the decree it issued on 26 March restricting the movements of journalists within courthouses and their ability to (...)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

Chile

Reporters Without Borders condemns attacks on press by Pinochet supporters

Reporters Without Borders condemns violence against Chilean and foreign journalists by supporters of the former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who (...)

Published on 13 December 2006 Read

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Chile - 22 December 2011

Fifteen women journalists file complaint against president, army chiefs

Chile - 8 December 2011

After three decades on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal won’t be executed

Chile - 8 December 2011

Journalist killed, paper attacked as violence against media grows

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