6 October 2005

Alert

News director receives death threats


Incident details

Enrique Alfonso Camargo Plata

journalist(s)

death threat

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(IPYS/IFEX) - Enrique Alfonso Camargo Plata, director of four news programmes for Radio Guatapurí, in Valledupar, César department, northern Colombia, received two death threats on 1 and 2 October 2005. The first message came by telephone; the second was sent as a text message to his cellular phone the next day.

Camargo does not know who made the threats but he does not rule out the possibility of a link to his recent reporting on corruption in local public services.

On 3 October, Camargo filed a complaint with the local public security department (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS), who ordered an immediate escort for the journalist to guarantee his safety.



Source:

Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Sucre N° 317
Barranco, Lima
Perú
alertas (@) ipys.org
Phone: +51 1 2474465
Fax: +51 1 2473194
 

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