Colombia - “Statutes of limitations are a tragic guarantee of eternal impunity”

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges Colombia's authorities and the prosecutor-general in particular to do what is necessary to prevent a 20-year statute of limitations from taking effect next week in the murder of El Universal photographer Nelson De la Rosa Toscazo, who was gunned down in the northern city of Cartagena on 3 August 1993. Murders of journalists that occurred before 2000 are subject to a 20-year statute of limitations in Colombia. Murders of other journalists – Manuel José Martínez (...)

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