RSF recalls attacks on journalists by the Pinochet regime on eve of House of Lords ruling on his immunity status
(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 24 November 1998 RSF press release on the occasion of the British House of Lords’ pending decision on the immunity status of General Augusto Pinochet: Press Release Chile While the House of Lords is to rule Wednesday, 25 November, on the validity of General Pinochet’s diplomatic immunity – a […]
New trial opens against weekly’s editor-in-chief
A military court trial against Manuel Cabieses, editor-in-chief of the weekly “Punto Final”, has opened on charges of “inciting sedition” (“incitacion a la sedicion”). With a warrant for the arrest of Cabieses, police on 10 September 1996 raided the journalist’s home, as well as the offices of the weekly. A verdict was to be pronounced […]
Legislation invoked to prevent Chilean media from reporting on judicial investigation of murdered senator
On 16 April 1996, the minister of the Santiago Court of Appeal, judge Alfredo Pfeiffer, issued a prohibition order preventing coverage by the Chilean media of a judicial investigation of the 1991 murder of senator Jaime Guzman Errazuriz. Pfeiffer invoked Article 25 of Law 16.643, regarding the “abuse of publicity” (“Ley sobre Abusos de Publicidad”), […]