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Articles - Chile

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Chile

Citizen protests draw attention to media concentration problems, says new RSF report

A surge in citizen unrest in Chile, from students demonstrating against an unfair and expensive school system to miners demanding better working conditions, may help break up the country's media oligopoly inherited from the Pinochet regime, says a new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Chile

EL DERECHO A SABER INFORMACIÓN PÚBLICA AVANZA

Chile

APRÈS UN TOLLÉ DE PROTESTATIONS, LA COUR SUPRÊME DOIT RESCINDER LES RESTRICTIONS IMPOSÉES À LA PRESSE

Chile

OBLIGAN A SUPREMA CORTE A RESCINDIR RESTRICCIONES DE PRENSA DEBIDO A INDIGNACIÓN DEL PÚBLICO

Chile

SUPREME COURT FORCED TO RESCIND PRESS RESTRICTIONS FOLLOWING PUBLIC OUTCRY

Chile's Supreme Court rescinded its decision to restrict journalists' access to court proceedings and public buildings following an outcry in the country's press, reports Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), which joined the Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) in condemning the policy.

Chile

LA COUR INTERAMÉRICAINE DES DROITS DE L'HOMME RECONNAÎT LE DROIT D'ACCÈS À L'INFORMATION

Chile

TRIBUNAL INTERAMERICANO RECONOCE DERECHOS DE ACCESO A LA INFORMACIÓN

Chile

INTER-AMERICAN COURT RECOGNISES ACCESS TO INFORMATION RIGHTS

For the first time ever, an international tribunal has recognised access to government-held information as a basic human right. On 11 October 2006, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights confirmed the existence of such a right in a case pitting the Chilean government against three environmental activists who sought information on a controversial logging project, report the Open Society Justice Initiative and Access Info Europe.

Chile

IPYS Y ARTICLE 19 PRESENTAN INFORME ANTE TRIBUNAL PARA DEFENDER ACCESO A LA INFORMACIÓN

Chile

L'IPYS ET ARTICLE 19 DÉPOSENT UN MÉMOIRE À LA DÉFENSE DE L'ACCÈS À L'INFORMATION

Chile

IPYS, ARTICLE 19 FILE BRIEF ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION CASE

Five civil society organisations, including the Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) and ARTICLE 19, have filed an amicus curiae brief with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, urging it to rule that the American Convention on Human Rights guarantees the right to access information held by public bodies.

Chile

LE CONGRÈS EST PRIÉ D'ABOLIR LES LOIS SUR LES « INSULTES »

Chile

INSTAN A CONGRESO A DEROGAR LEYES DE "DESACATO"

Chile

CONGRESS URGED TO SCRAP "INSULT" LAWS

In Chile, where criticising government and military officials can land a person in jail, efforts are underway to reform the country's free speech laws. A government bill proposing to decriminalise the country's so-called "insult" or "desacato" laws is making its way through the Senate, but Human Rights Watch and the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) warn that the final version may be too weak to protect the right of citizens and journalists to freely express their views.

Chile

IPYS, ARTICLE 19 SUPPORT ACCESS TO INFORMATION CASE

The Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) and ARTICLE 19 have teamed up with two other organisations to support a Chilean legal case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) which could have significant repercussions for access to information laws in the Americas.

Chile

LA SIP DÉPÊCHE UNE DÉLÉGATION AU CHILI

Chile

IAPA SENDS DELEGATION TO CHILE

A delegation of Inter American Press Association (IAPA) members is visiting Chile this week to assess the state of press freedom in the country.

Chile

ABOLITION DE LA CENSURE DU CINÉMA; LE WPFC INVITE À L'ÉLIMINATION DES LOIS « DESACATO »

Chile

CINEMATOGRÁFICA ABOLIDA / WPFC Y HRW INSTAN A ELIMINACIÓN DE LEYES DE DESACATO

Chile

FILM CENSORSHIP ABOLISHED / WPFC, HRW URGE ELIMINATION OF "DESACATO" LAWS

For the first time in 10 years, Chileans will be able to see more than 1,000 films that had previously been banned following Senate approval of a new law abolishing film censorship, reports PERIODISTAS (la Asociacion para la Defensa del Periodismo Independiente).

Chile

: SUPREMA CORTE SE REHÚSA A LEVANTAR PROHIBICIÓN A LIBRO

Chile

LA COUR SUPRÊME REFUSE DE LEVER L'INTERDIT QUI FRAPPE UN LIVRE

Chile

SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO LIFT BAN ON BOOK

The Supreme Court has quashed an appeal by journalist Alejandra Matus to have a court-ordered ban on her book, “The Black Book of Chilean Justice”, lifted, writes the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Matus’ book, an investigative exposé about the Chilean judicial system, has been banned for over two years. “The Supreme Court’s August 23 decision certainly casts a shadow over the recent repeal of some of Chile’s most notorious and restrictive press provisions,” said CPJ.

Chile

JUEZ DESEA INTERROGAR A KISSINGER ACERCA DE PERIODISTA "DESAPARECIDO"

Chile

RETOUR AU PAYS D'UNE JOURNALISTE; LA PROJECTION D'UN FILM EST SUSPENDUE; UN JUGE VEUT INTERROGER HENRY KISSINGER

Chile

JOURNALIST RETURNS HOME; FILM SCREENING SUSPENDED; JUDGE WANTS TO QUESTION KISSINGER ABOUT "MISSING" JOURNALIST

Journalist Alejandra Matus returned to Chile on 14 July 2001 after more than two years in exile, reports Legal Training for Action (FORJA). "Today is an important day for journalists and for press freedom in Chile," the journalist stated after her arrival.

Chile

REVOCAN ESTATUTO USADO CONTRA MATUS

Chile

ABOLITION DE LA LOI QUI AVAIT ÉTÉ UTILISÉE CONTRE LA JOURNALISTE MATUS

Chile

STATUTE USED AGAINST MATUS REPEALED

A new press law, approved by the Chilean Senate on 18 April, repeals several provisions of the country's State Security Law, including one (Article 6b) that makes it a crime against public order to insult high officials, report Legal Training for Action (FORJA), the Argentinian Association for the Defence of Independent Journalism (PERIODISTAS) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Chile

AVANCES FRUSTRADOS EN LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN, DICE HRW

Chile

LE PROGRÈS DE LA LIBERTÉ D?EXPRESSION EST BLOQUÉ, DIT HRW

Chile

PROGRESS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION STALLED, SAYS HRW

Despite progress in prosecuting the abuses of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile's record on freedom of expression has improved little since the end of military rule more than a decade ago, says Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a new report, entitled "Progress Stalled: Setbacks in Freedom of Expression Reform in Chile", HRW calls for a repeal of the State Security Law provisions that criminalise speech and for other much-needed free expression reforms.

Chile

SIP BUSCA REVOCACIÓN DE LEYES DE INJURIA

Chile

LA SIP TENTE D?OBTENIR L?ABOLITION DES LOIS SUR LES INSULTES

Chile

MATUS' CONVICTION UPHELD, IAPA SEEKS REPEAL OF INSULT LAWS

A Chilean court has upheld journalist Alejandra Matus' conviction on contempt charges, according to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). In a letter to President Ricardo Lagos, IAPA reiterates its calls for the country to repeal its insult laws, which state that contempt ("desacato") is a criminal offence. Matus is the author of the banned book "El Libro Negro de la Justicia Chilena" (The Black Book of Chilean Justice), which denounced the judiciary's corruption, nepotism, and abuses of power. She is now living in exile in Miami, Florida. On 19 December, a Chilean judge temporarily halted legal proceedings in the case, thus upholding an order for Matus' arrest issued in November. According to IAPA, with no further recourse to appeal, she may not return to her homeland until a statute of limitations expires in 13 years' time.

Chile

CONTINÚAN LAS VIOLACIONES A LIBRE EXPRESIÓN

Chile

LES VIOLATIONS DE LA LIBERTÉ D?EXPRESSION SE POURSUIVENT

Chile

FREE EXPRESSION VIOLATIONS CONTINUE

The Chilean government continues to flagrantly violate free expression despite its return to democracy in the past nine years, writes Chilean journalist Alejandra Matus in the latest issue of "Index on Censorship" entitled "After the Fall" (Vol. 5, 1999).

Chile

COMMÉMORATION DES JOURNALISTES ASSASSINÉS ET DISPARUS

Chile

CONMEMORACIÓN DE PERIODISTAS ASESINADOS Y DESAPARECIDOS

Chile

COMMEMORATION OF ASSASSINATED AND DISAPPEARED JOURNALISTS

On 8 September, the anniversary of the journalist José Carrasco Tapia’s murder in 1986, the College of Journalists (CIAP) took the opportunity to dedicate a plaque in commemoration of all of the assassinated and disappeared journalists during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990). Carrasco, who was editor of the discontinued magazine ANALISIS and director of CIAP, was the last of a series of journalists targeted by the Pinochet regime. The commemorative plaque was placed where Carrasco’s body was found.