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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:38:19 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuador's national assembly approves communication law]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/06/17/aprueba_ley/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Along the approval process, the Communications bill had been observed by international agencies and organizations such as the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Watch, and the Committee to Protect Journalists, among others, because it did not comply with international standards on freedom of expression.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuador's President accuses Twitter user of inciting crime]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/06/04/ayala_denunciacion/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Twitter user Danny Ayala, who uses the handle @DayalaEc on the social network, was notified of an urgent action against him requested by President Rafael Correa from the Prosecutor's Office, because Ayala had allegedly "incited an attack against his life”. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:38:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Government arrests suspects in Ecuadorian journalist's murder]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/06/03/sospechosos_periodista_asesinado/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On the evening of 22 May, the Minister of the Interior reported the arrests of seven people suspected of involvement in the death of journalist Fausto Valdiviezo, who was killed on 11 April 2013 in Guayaquil.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:11:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Former intelligence director reported for comments on drug trafficking in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/31/pazmino_denuncia/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Minister of the Interior has filed a formal complaint against the former chief of military intelligence for attempting "to disrupt the public order of the State" after he made some comments during a radio interview about an alleged link between security forces and drug trafficking.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 12:04:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Slow progress on free expression in Ecuador one year after U.N. review]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/23/upr_check-up/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite the acceptance of the vast majority of observations on free expression in Ecuador at the 2012 U.N. Universal Periodic Review, Fundamedios is concerned that in practice no advances are evident.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Political motive suspected in Ecuadorian radio programme suspension]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/22/manabi_station_shut/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On Thursday 2 May 2013, the radio programme "Hablemos Claro", broadcast by Radio Marejada in the coastal province of Manabí, was taken off the air. According to the programme’s director, Trajano Andrade, it was suspended due to pressure exerted by the Municipality of Manta.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Trial that ended in journalist's conviction declared invalid in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/21/nulidad_proceso/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Provincial Court of Justice of the Province of Carchi has annulled the conviction for non-aggravated libelous injury previously handed down to journalist and chief executive of the newspaper <em>La Nación</em>, Yaco Martínez.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:58:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/21/nulidad_proceso/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Government continues attack on Ecuadorian NGO with questions about funding]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/15/funding_accusation/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A recent government programme attempted to discredit Fundamedios and its executive director by accusing them of obtaining funds from USAID via "another NGO".
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:41:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/15/funding_accusation/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - International and local human rights NGOs derided by Ecuador's president]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/13/descalifica_organizaciones/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[President Rafael Correa has disparaged the human rights organization Freedom House and the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression for its recent reports on Ecuador, which he characterized as "manipulated".]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian journalist gets threats via Twitter after writing report]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/05/09/pallares_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Martín Pallares received threats via Twitter after he published an article in which he questioned the government's media coverage of the launch of an Ecuadorian satellite.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Journalist attacked by public prosecutor in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/04/29/zurita_agredido/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On Thursday 18 April 2013, journalist Christian Zurita of the newspaper <em>El Universo</em> was physically attacked by provincial prosecutor Simón Lara Grueso in the border town of Esmeraldas - located 318 km north of Quito - while covering the trial of one of the accused in the drug trafficking case known as "Resurgir".
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Politician, activists sentenced for slander against Ecuadorian President]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/04/19/slander_president/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Judge Lucy Blacio of the National Court of Justice sentenced Assembly member Cléver Jimenez and former union leader Fernando Villavicencio to one and a half years in prison for the crime of slander against President Rafael Correa.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:03:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - President to take legal action against daily in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/04/12/la_hora_legal_action/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[President Rafael Correa has confirmed he will take legal action against the newspaper <em>La Hora</em> for the crime of "incitement to hatred" and the dissemination of "ideas based on superiority or racial hatred" after it published a series of photographs depicting the murder of an indigenous Waorani couple.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:16:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Journalist slain in Ecuador after escaping earlier murder attempt]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/04/12/moscoso/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the investigation into journalist Fausto Valdivieso Moscoso’s murder on 11 April 2013 in Guayaquil. The motive is not yet known but press reports quoted local sources as saying he had been the target of a murder attempt 24 hours earlier and had received threats.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Court acquits Ecuadorian journalist, ending years-long court battle]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/03/27/aponte_acquitted/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Criminal Division of the National Court of Justice acquitted journalist Freddy Aponte, previously sentenced to five years in prison for the crime of fraudulent bankruptcy in a trial initiated by Bolívar Castillo, the former mayor of the city Loja.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - In Ecuador, journalist's home raided on questionable pretense]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/03/26/alcivar_raid/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday 12 March 2013 seven people, among them police officers and municipal officials, entered the home of Juan Alcívar, a journalist and correspondent for the newspaper <em>La Hora</em> in the city of Concordia, for allegedly occupying public property without municipal permission.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/03/26/alcivar_raid/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian government targets TV station, journalist dismissed]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/03/21/journalist_dismissed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On 16 March 2013 President Rafael Correa urged Defense Minister María Fernanda Espinosa to decide on the judicial actions that could be applied against Ecuavisa TV after the station broadcast a report on 11 March about alleged favoritism in the promotion of three colonels in the Ecuadorian Armed Forces.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:18:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/03/21/journalist_dismissed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian journalist sentenced to prison for defamation]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/03/12/yaco_prision/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On 8 March 2013, Judge Bayardo García sentenced journalist Yaco Martínez to one month in prison and the payment of $30,000, after finding him guilty of the crime of non-slanderous defamation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:34:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/03/12/yaco_prision/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Twitter suspends account of Ecuadorian organisation]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/26/fundamedios_cuenta_twitter/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The organisation Fundamedios demands that Twitter provide a swift and clear explanation of the measures adopted to suspend its account, @Fundamedios.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/26/fundamedios_cuenta_twitter/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - What four more years of Correa means for Ecuador's press]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/20/four_years_correa/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[After winning the 17 February 2013 presidential election in Ecuador with 56.9% of the vote, President Rafael Correa is heading into his third term as leader of the country, apparently committed to maintaining his antagonistic relationship with the private media.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/20/four_years_correa/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Website hacked by Ecuadorian government after story on president]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/14/bananaleaks_sabotage/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On 28 January 2013, the website "BananaLeaks.co" was under attack by unidentified hackers. The page was hacked after the publication of an article that revealed the alleged existence of two bank accounts owned by President Rafael Correa in Switzerland.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:54:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/14/bananaleaks_sabotage/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - In Ecuador, government uses official bulletins as line of defence]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/06/correa_desayuno/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The practice of pre-empting broadcasts for official announcements, known as <em>cadenas</em>, was enshrined in Ecuador's radio and television law in 1974, under a military government. Critics call the use of cadenas abusive because the government now has so many other ways to get its point across.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/06/correa_desayuno/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian media face reporting restrictions during campaign]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/05/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Where does accurate reporting on a presidential candidate end and “indirect” promotion of the candidate begin? That’s the question facing Ecuadorean media outlets as they try to navigate an ambiguous legal landscape ahead of the country’s Feb. 17th presidential vote.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:23:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/02/05/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Repression in Ecuador deepens as president heads to new term]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/01/30/repression_election/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Critics say that in the absence of a strong political opposition, Correa, who is heavily favored to win another four-year term in the February 17 election, has turned the Ecuadoran press into his whipping boy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:12:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/01/30/repression_election/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuador's president announces subsidy for small media outlets]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/01/29/subsidio_periodistas/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[President Rafael Correa announced that during his next period in office the State will subsidize small "non-profit" media outlets, but the measure will not extend to the large media companies, which he says "are drowning in cash".]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:44:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2013/01/29/subsidio_periodistas/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Journalist kidnapped and beaten in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/12/20/secuestrado_arregui/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Journalist Ángel Arregui, of television station Sacha TV in La Joya de los Sachas, was kidnapped and beaten by unidentified persons who, after leaving him on the highway, warned him that the attack had been punishment for "messing with the boss."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:44:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/12/20/secuestrado_arregui/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian blogger released after hacking presidential account]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/12/11/moreno_released/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On the evening of 3 December, blogger Paúl Moreno - who had been arrested for hacking into President Correa’s personal information - was released as a result of a request made by head of state during his N 299 "Enlace Ciudadano" program.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:56:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian radio programme cancelled after contentious interview]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/12/10/carrion/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Journalist Andrés Carrión was notified that his program "Regresando con Andrés Carrión", broadcasted by Radio Armónica of Quito, would be cancelled. He had recently interviewed Santiago Villa, the director of a censored documentary.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:57:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Human rights guarantees in Ecuador: Protecting the State or the people?
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      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/12/04/protective_actions/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A protective rights action is a judicial guarantee intended to redress the violation of the fundamental rights of people. However, when the State files a protective action there is a contradiction in terms.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:12:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Provincial leader sues Ecuadorian paper for "spiritual damage"]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/28/el_telegrafo_suit/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On 21 November 2012, the newspaper <em>El Telégrafo</em> reported on a lawsuit filed against Orlando Pérez, the paper's director, by Salvador Quishpe, prefect of Zamora Chinchipe province, for having allegedly caused him "spiritual damage" in a 21 March article published under the title "Leader Supports Mining."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:23:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/28/el_telegrafo_suit/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Government broadcasts in Ecuador used as tool to counter dissent]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/22/cadenas_tool/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The use of broadcasted government "cadenas" to spread the official messages of the State is also an instrument of attack against the media that is not pro-government and their allies, who are described as “opponents” for thinking differently, according to Fundamedios.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Court rules Ecuadorian paper must apologise to government]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/16/la_hora_court_ruling/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A court decision has ruled that <em>La Hora</em> infringed on the government’s constitutional right to protection from “the dissemination of inexact or unproven information”, <a href="http://www.freemedia.at/home/singleview/article/ecuadorean-magazine-sentenced-for-reporting-on-government-advertising.html" target="_blank">according to IPI</a>, for the paper’s 10 October report on the administration spending “over US $71 million on official advertising since January”.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:18:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Judges order definitive closure of radio station in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/13/radio_morena_closed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A tribunal at the Guayas Court of Justice confirmed the withdrawal of Radio Morena FM's broadcasting license, in Guayaquil, after declaring unfounded the appeal presented by the Almorán company, which operates the radio station.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:24:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/13/radio_morena_closed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Deterioration of press freedom in Ecuador causes international concern]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/01/informe/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Restrictive legal measures that limit freedom of expression and the stigmatizing and intimidating discourse against media outlets and journalists from the highest levels of power are some of the issues that cause most concern to international organizations that defend freedom of expression.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:17:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Journalist threatened after gang investigation airs in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/11/01/toledo_amenaza_de_muerte/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Nathaly Toledo, a journalist and newscaster for TV station Teleamazonas, reported via Twitter that she received death threats after presenting a report on drugs and weapons found in a school in the coastal city of Guayaquil and their links to gangs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[United States - Correa supporters protest during journalism awards ceremony in US]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/united_states/2012/10/29/correa_supporters_protest/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Protesters brandishing Ecuadoran flags and pictures of President Rafael Correa yelled slogans like "Down the with corrupt press!" and "Long live President Correa!" as the newspaper <em>El Universo</em> received an honorary citation at the Cabot prize awards ceremony.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:54:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Report documents government attacks on Ecuador's private media]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/10/23/ipi_releases_ecuador/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The International Press Institute (IPI) today released a final report on its May 2012 press freedom mission to Ecuador, stating that the nation’s private media outlets are being targeted by the government of President Rafael Correa.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:16:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian government uses radio messages to discredit private media]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/10/19/cadenas_threaten_fundamedios/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A radio 'cadena' interrupted for approximately six and a half minutes news programs on the radio stations with the highest ratings, in an attempt to discredit the work of Fundamedios and assert that certain media outlets do not comply with labor laws.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:45:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian newspaper targeted over readers' critical comments]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/10/16/comercio_request/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has ratified a request calling on "El Comercio" to hand over the names of readers who have posted critical comments on its webpage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuador limits use of phrases, constraining public debate]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/10/12/30s_twitter/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Since July of this year, the terms “30S”, “30-S” and “Prohibido olvidar” (Don't Forget) have become the exclusive property of the government, after the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property (IEPI) accepted the registration of these phrases, in effect until May 2022.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian court fines newspaper, media cannot report sentence]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/10/04/el_universo_fine/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A judge for Children and Adolescents, sentenced the newspaper <em>El Universo</em>'s director, Carlos Pérez Barriga, with a US$500 fine for publishing a photograph of the underage children of Assembly members Abdalá Bucaram Pulley and Gabriela Pazmiño in the company of President Rafael Correa.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian magazine fined $80,000 for opinion article]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/10/02/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[An Electoral Tribunal has sanctioned <em>Vistazo</em> magazine with an 80 thousand dollar fine because it found the editorial entitled "Un NO Rotundo" (An Emphatic NO) - about questions posed in the Popular Consultation and Referendum of 7 May 2011 - to be "electoral propaganda".]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:45:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Intruders threaten newspaper journalist in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/10/01/escudero_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On Sunday 23 September 2012, journalist Alejandro Escudero, of the weekly paper <em>Independiente</em> of the city of Nueva Loja, Amazon province in Sucumbíos, was threatened by two unidentified persons who, much to his surprise, burst into the paper's office.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Report explores access to information requests in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/28/increase_transparency/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[To determine the levels of compliance among State institutions covered by the Transparency and Access to Public Information Law, Fundamedios presented 40 requests for access to information addressed to the Presidency, Vice-presidency and the various Ministries and State Secretariats.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:49:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/28/increase_transparency/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian journalists harassed in court and on the street]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/27/aponte_five_years/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A court in Loja sentenced journalist Freddy Aponte to five years in prison after ratifying a first instance conviction that found him guilty of bankruptcy fraud in a lawsuit initiated by the former mayor of Loja, Bolívar Castillo. The journalist failed to pay a fine in a previous trial for moral damage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:36:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/27/aponte_five_years/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Ecuadorian investigative journalist takes leave after her safety is threatened]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/21/hinostroza_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Journalist Jeanette Hinostroza confirmed publicly that she has received threats against her security and physical safety and announced that she would take a temporary leave from the Teleamazonas news and interview program "La Mañana de 24 Horas", as a preventive measure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:57:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/21/hinostroza_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Asylum for Assange in Ecuador boosts free expression debate]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/17/assange_debate/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[After the government of Rafael Correa announced it would grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, the issue of freedom of expression in Ecuador has been the focus of many news pieces in the media all over the world.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:58:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/17/assange_debate/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - "El Universo" correspondent gets death threats in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/06/medrano_threat/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Journalist Antonio Medrano, the <em>El Universo</em> correspondent in the city of Babahoyo, received threatening phone calls from unidentified persons, warning him that he could be killed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:58:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/06/medrano_threat/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - United States grants political asylum to persecuted Ecuadorian columnist]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/05/usa_asylum_palacio/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On 30 August 2012, Emilio Palacio, former opinion editor of the newspaper <em>El Universo</em>, announced that the government of the United States has granted him political asylum after the paper's directors were sentenced to three years in prison and the payment of 40 million dollars to Rafael Correa as reparations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:35:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/09/05/usa_asylum_palacio/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ecuador - Magazine correspondent threatened after writing about press freedom in Ecuador]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/08/20/semana_revista_threat/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Journalist Orlando Gómez was attacked and threatened with death by unidentified persons after the magazine's recent publications about freedom of expression and the asylum offered to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/ecuador/2012/08/20/semana_revista_threat/</guid>
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