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Freedom of the Press 2016: El Salvador
In 2015, President Salvador Sánchez Cerén accused the media of promoting a “psychological terror” campaign against the government, following widespread reporting on increasing violence in the country.
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Freedom of the Press 2015: El Salvador
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Freedom of the Press 2014: El Salvador
Ranked 78th in annual global media freedom report
5 July 1996
Alert
Group continues to make threats against journalists and media outlets
**Updates IFEX alert dated 1 July 1996**
RSF is concerned at an underground group's continued threats
against journalists and media outlets. On 3 July 1996, the group
Fuerza Nacionalista Roberto D'Aubuisson (named after the late
founder of the governing National Republican Alliance, or ARENA,
party) released a statement in which it threatened the Cable News
Network (CNN), the evening paper "Diario Latino", Channel Twelve
(Canal Doce) television, Radio Sonora and Radio YSKL. The group
threatened to take action against national media outlets and
correspondents of foreign media, saying they give negative
coverage of the government and the privatization process it has
undertaken.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to Salvadoran authorities:
journalists' ability to freely exercise their profession
journalists, and asking that an investigation be conducted to
identify those responsible
Appeals To
His Excellency President Armando Calderon Sol
Casa Presidencial
San Salvador, El Salvador
Fax: +503 281 0018/281 0017
Please copy appeals to the originator if possible.
Source
Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris, France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Fax:+33 1 45 23 11 51
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