RSF alarmed by escalating violence against reporters in Chile

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the many attacks against journalists covering a week-old wave of often violent anti-government protests and unrest in Chile that is without precedent since the fall of the dictatorship in 1990. The government must guarantee journalists’ safety throughout the country, RSF said.In the course of the protests that erupted on 18 October in response to an increase in subway fares in the capital, Santiago, RSF has registered many cases of targeted violence by both security for

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