Media targeted in Ecuador’s deepening crisis

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to guarantee journalists’ safety throughout Ecuador after more than a week of very worrying attacks on reporters by both police and demonstrators during violent anti-government protests, strikes and blockades that are continuing all over the country.These large-scale protests began when President Lenin Moreno announced on 2 October that his government was ending fuel subsidies in effect for nearly 40 years, causing a sharp hike in fuel prices.

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