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Thirty-five journalists and social communicators have applied for help
from the Program for the Protection of Journalists and Social Communicators,
and 28 cases of abuses of the fundamental rights of journalists are currently
being investigated by the Special Section of the Human Rights Unit of
the Prosecutor General's Office. In addition to these figures, corresponding
to the cases dealt with by the Program for the Protection of Journalists
and Social Communicators, national journalists groups and non-governmental
human rights organizations have collected other statistics. According
to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, 157 journalists have been killed
since 1985. This year, six have been murdered, twenty have received threats,
six have been kidnapped and five saw themselves forced to leave the country
because of their job. "Prensa Libre", the international organization,
recorded the murder of 101 journalists in Colombia since 1990, eight of
them killed in 1999 and twelve in the year 2000. For its part, Reporteros
sin Fronteras (Reporters without Borders) reports that six journalists
were murdered in 1999.
The table shows the cases of homicide, and threats made against journalists
and social communicators in the practice of their profession, that are
currently being investigated by the Special Section of the Prosecutor
General's Office.
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CASES
RELATED TO JOURNALISTS INVESTIGATED BY THE SPECIAL SECTION
OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS UNIT OF THE PROSECUTOR GENERAL´S OFFICE
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JOURNALIST´S
NAME
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PLACE
AND DATE
|
CRIME
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| Ismael
Jaimes Cortés |
Barrancabermeja,
May 6, 1992
|
Homicide
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| Carlos
Lajud Catalán |
Barranquilla,
March 19, 1993
|
Homicide
|
| Ernesto
Acero Cadena |
Armenia,
December 12, 1995
|
Homicide
|
| Jairo
Elías Márquez Gallego |
Armenia,
November 20, 1997
|
Homicide
|
| Amparo
Leonor Jiménez Pallares |
Valledupar,
August 11, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| Víctor
Manuel Ramos |
Bogotá,
June 19, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| José
Arturo Guapacha |
Cartago,
October 15, 1999
|
Homicide
|
| Didier
Aristizábal Galeano |
Cali,
March 2, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| Hernando
Rangel Moreno |
El
Banco (Magdalena), April 11, 1999
|
Homicide
|
| Francisco
Castro Menco |
Majagual
(Sucre), November 8, 1997
|
Homicide
|
| Oscar
García Calderón |
Bogotá,
August 27, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| Gerardo
Bedoya Borrero |
Cali,
March 20, 1997
|
Homicide
|
| Saúl
Oswaldo Alcaraz Watstein |
Medellín,
October 14, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| Jaime
Hernando Grazno |
Bogotá,
August 13, 1999
|
Homicide
|
| Nelson
Carvajal Carvajal |
Pitalito
(Huila), April 16, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| Jhon
Jader Jaramillo Correa |
Chinchiná
(Caldas), July 8, 1999
|
Threats
|
| Guzmán
Quintero Torres |
Valledupar,
September 16, 1999
|
Homicide
|
| Luis
Alberto Rincón y Alberto Sánchez |
El
Playón (Santander), November 28, 1999
|
Homicide
|
| Pablo
Emilio Medina |
Gigante
(Huila), December 3, 1999
|
Homicide
|
| Carlos
Pulgarín |
Montería
(Córdoba), June 29, 1999,
and Lima (Perú), December 27, 1999
|
Threats
|
| Néstor
Villar Jiménez |
Villavicencio,
September 12, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| Alejandro
Jaramillo Barbosa |
Pasto,
October 24, 1997
|
Homicide
|
| Nelson
Osorio Patiño |
Bogotá,
August 27, 1998
|
Homicide
|
| Julio
Daniel Chaparro Hurtado |
Segovia
(Antioquia)
|
Homicide
|
| Raúl
Echavarría Barrientos |
Cali,
1986
|
Homicide
|
| Antonio
Gómez Gómez |
Ciénaga
(Magdalena), February 9, 2000
|
Homicide
|
| Jineth
Bedoya |
Bogotá,
May 25, 2000
|
Kidnapping,
threats and rape
|
| Sergio
Otálora Montenegro |
Bogotá,
May 25, 2000
|
Threats
|
| Alfredo
Abad López |
Florencia
(Caquetá), December 13, 2000
|
Homicide
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JOURNALISTS
MURDERED 1990 - 2000
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JOURNALISTS
MURDERED 1977 - 2000
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Source:
Prensa Libre.
Processed by: The Observatory of the Presidential Program
for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law - Office of the Vice President
of Colombia
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