Colombia - Journalist gunned down in region under paramilitary sway after protection withdrawn

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges the Colombian authorities, especially the interior ministry, to explain why they recently stopped providing protection for Clodomiro Castilla Ospina, a magazine editor and radio reporter who was gunned down in the northern department of Córdoba on 19 March. As someone who had often reported on the links between the Córdoba authorities and paramilitary groups, Castilla was a particular exposed journalist in one of the hemisphere's most dangerous regions for the (...)

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