Ecuador - Police uprising against President Correa leads to censorship and violence against media

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Justice must be rendered to the journalists working for national and international media who were the collateral victims of yesterday's police mutiny in Ecuador. In the course of a 12-hour crisis that nearly became a coup against President Rafael Correa, media freedom was repeatedly violated and journalists were attacked by policemen protesting against the elimination of their bonuses. The Ecuadorean press freedom organisation Fundamedios had registered around 20 acts of repression against (...)

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