Costa Rica - Government accused of spying on newspaper's reporters

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls for a parliamentary committee investigation into spying on the San José-based Diario Extra newspaper, which reported at new conference yesterday that the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) and the office of the public prosecutor have been monitoring the private and professional phone calls of its journalists for the past ten months. “This is very similar to the scandalous seizure of the Associated Press' phone records in the United States,” Reporters Without (...)

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