Poignant report puts damper on Colombia's day of the journalist .
Poignant report puts damper on Colombia's day of the journalist .
Friday, 08 February 2013 10:47 Narayan Buckley
A new report by Colombia's Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) stands as a stark reminder of just how dangerous the journalistic profession is in this country, bringing a solemnity to Colombia's Day of the Journalist on Saturday.
According to newspaper El Espectador, FLIP will publish its annual report on the state of press freedom in Colombia on Saturday, which coincides with Colombia's Day of the Journalist.
While attacks on journalists have fallen from 158 in 2011 to 141 in 2012, the report supposedly will draw attention to a worrisome new trend that has emerged in the tactics of journalistic oppression -- legal prosecution as a method of censorship.
The report allegedly highlights a ruling against a journalist by Cundinamarca (central Colombia) department's high court as an example. The journalist in question was convicted of libel for writing an opinion piece which heavily criticized a former governor of the department who had decided to reenter politics.
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