Mónica Oblitas is in danger. She feels lost, uneasy. Everything has changed for this Bolivian journalist since she published, in La Prensa newspaper, an investigative report about alleged corruption in the Bolivian Forensic Research Institute. She has received anonymous threatening phone calls, text messages and emails; she and her son have been followed and the […]

Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies on Thursday passed a bill removing prison sentences for slander and insult from the country’s penal code. Argentina’s Senate will now vote on the government-sponsored move. The executive branch introduced the proposal to reform the criminal offences of calumnias e injurias (slander and insult) on 11 September this year, in response to a […]

Argentina’s senate on Saturday passed a controversial broadcasting bill containing provisions that could damage media freedom in the country. The senate passed the “Audiovisual Communication Law” – a bill ostensibly aimed at increasing plurality in the country’s media – by 44 votes to 24, following a debate that started at around 10.30am local time on […]

The lower house of Argentina’s National Congress, the Chamber of Deputies, approved late on Wednesday a controversial telecommunications bill containing provisions that endanger media freedom in the country’s broadcasting sector. Argentina’s Senate must now vote on the bill. Legislators passed the draft “Audiovisual Communication Law”, ostensibly aimed at creating more media pluralism in the country by replacing […]