Spain - Death of Fernando Castelló, former president of Reporters Without Borders International

Fernando Castelló, a journalist who worked for the Spanish news agency EFE, died yesterday in Madrid aged 76 after a long battle with cancer, his family said. He fought for media freedom in Spain as head of the Spanish section of Reporters Without Borders and then internationally as president of Reporters Without Borders International. "It's a very sad loss for the Reporters Without Borders' community, which extends all over the world, in places where fights have to be led against censorship, (...)

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