{"id":61087,"date":"2015-01-12T18:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laindependent.cat\/kill-or-silence-the-messengers\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:19:20","slug":"kill-or-silence-the-messengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laindependent.cat\/en\/kill-or-silence-the-messengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill or silence the messengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jfdefaulttext\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30392 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 134px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 134\/189;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/laindependent.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/exHollande.jpg\" alt=\"exHollande\" width=\"134\" height=\"189\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;\">For the freedom of speech, political and religious satire and against the tyranny of silence, <em>&#8216;Nous sommes toutes Charlie<\/em>&#8220;.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;\">The execution of cartoonists and journalists of the French weekly <em>Charlie Hebdo<\/em> has impacted almost every corner of the planet, but the killings and imprisonment of journalists has become a sad practice in all regions of the world.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">\u00a0118 people (135, whether the 17 accidental victims at work are added), more men than women, have been killed in 2014 during the course of their work, attacked directly or in crossfire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-30393\" src=\"https:\/\/laindependent.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Papa.jpg\" alt=\"Papa\" width=\"199\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">At December 31, those were the figures published by the International Federation of Journalists <\/span>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIP<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">But 2015 has started very badly. The bad data consists of 11 people shot down. <strong>Khalid Mohammed al Washali<\/strong> correspondent of Channel <em>Al-Masirah<\/em>, opened the list on 4 January (along with three other civilians) in the city of Dhamar, south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, because of the explosion of a bomb, claimed by the group of <em>Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula<\/em> (AQAP by the acronym in English). The following victims were the colleagues and <em>Charli Hebdo<\/em> in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Journalists killed generally in war zones<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">These 118 victims also represent an increase of 13 professionals regarding 105 the previous year. Topping the<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\" href=\"http:\/\/ifj-safety.org\/assets\/docs\/078\/194\/a86304e-7deeac2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">appears the Asia Pacific, the most dangerous region in the world for journalistic work, with 35 victims; followed closely Middle East, with 31 deaths and the next danger zone is Latin America, with 26 murders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Africa has a record of 17 victims, particularly in war zones (Somalia, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea Conakry). In the latter country, according to the International Press Institute\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">(<\/span><a style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freemedia.at\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IPI<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">two journalists were \u201ckilled by settlers while accompanying a medical team, which distributed information about the Ebola virus\u201d. In Europe 9 journalists died. <em>The Freedom House<\/em> IPI believes that \u201cpress freedom is at its lowest level\u201d and notes \u201cstrong pressure\u201d to silence the media in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Pakistan the most dangerous for the job<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">According to data from the FIP, the largest number of kidnap victims, executed or murdered in 2014, stood in Asia and the Middle East, where wars or attacks by armed groups persist. Pakistan, with the Taliban offensive against education and freedom of expression, is the most dangerous country for journalism with 14 fatalities. It is followed by Syria (12, including two American photojournalists beheaded), Afghanistan (9), Palestine (9) and Iraq (8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">In Ukraine have been killed eight journalists. The IFJ says that in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip have been made \u201creckless attacks\u201d or premeditated against media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">In Latin American five men reporters were killed in Honduras, another 5 in Mexico, 4 in Paraguay (1 woman), 3 in Colombia (1 woman), 3 men in Brazil, 2 in Peru and another 2 in Dominican Republic. In the area of accidental or natural disasters died two men in Argentina, one in El Salvador and 1 woman in Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30394 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/laindependent.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AnaLiliaPerez.jpg\" alt=\"AnaLiliaPerez\" width=\"210\" height=\"258\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 210px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 210\/258;\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Ana Lilia Perez, exiliada de M\u00e8xic per amenaces \u00a0de mort<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Criminal permissiveness in Honduras and Mexico<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">According to IFJ, the journalists who dare to report on drug trafficking and corruption schemes are the victims, mainly in Honduras and Mexico, where acts organized crime and drug trafficking, with the almost total permissiveness authorities. At least, this is one of the conclusions of the mission to the International Federation of Journalists conducted in September 2014 in the Mexican state of Guerrero (where were murdered 43 students in Iguala). There the IFJ pressed Mexican authorities (local, federal and national) to exercise their \u201cduty to protect\u201d people who work in the media because \u201cinformation and freedom of the press is one of the human rights\u201d and also \u201cthe information is necessary for development and social justice\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">The Brazilian <strong>Beth Costa<\/strong>, IFJ General Secretary since 2011, said that \u201clevels of violence against journalists is still unacceptably high in countries where this profession involves great risks to their daily lives\u201d and added that \u201cunfortunately many people have paid a high price this year (2014) with the loss of his life, in the spiral of violence that surrounds the media and that increases with the climate of impunity\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">So Beth Costa<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">(<\/span><a style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/111833738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enlla\u00e7 video<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">notes that the FIP has become \u201cpermanent campaign against impunity, and urges governments and Justice of all countries to investigate all crimes against journalists and punish their murderers\u201d because \u201cevery time a journalist is killed is silenced the voice of society\u201d. The general secretary also encourages Union members of the Federation to join the campaign against impunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">The worst year in incarceration<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">That 2014 is the worst year for the number of imprisoned journalists is an affirmation of Swedish journalist <strong>Martin Karl Schibbye<\/strong>, imprisoned with photographer <strong>Johan Persson<\/strong> in Ethiopia in 2011, because of supposed \u201clinks to terrorism\u201d to enter illegally in the Ethiopian region of Ogaden, the National Liberation Front\u2019s area. Both were acquitted and released a year later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Three male journalists from <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> in English are also over a year in prison in Egypt, for alleged \u201cmembership of a terrorist organization\u201d (in this case the <em>Muslim Brotherhood<\/em>) and for \u201cspreading false news\u201d. Sentenced in 2014 between 7 and 10 years in prison, they may appear again before a Court and have another trial, by order of the Egyptian Court of Cassation due to international pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Egyptian women journalists were not arrested, but they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mujeresenred.net\/spip.php?article2073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">attacked and raped in Tahrir Square<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">since the beginning of the <em>Arab Spring<\/em> in 2011 but, also in 2013, during protests against the military coup of <strong>Aldelfatah Al-Sisi<\/strong> against the elected President <strong>Mohamed Mursi<\/strong>. It is a deterrent brutal tactics to stop them information on the street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Reporters without Borders (RSF), which amounts to 177 the <a href=\"http:\/\/es.rsf.org\/el-barometro-de-la-libertad-de-prensa-periodistas-encarcelados.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">journalists jailed worldwide<\/a> is demanding the release of a total of 16 journalists in prison in Egypt. The country today \u201cis the fourth largest prison in the world for people who practice journalism, after China, Eritrea and Iran\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">To <strong>William Horsley<\/strong>, a former BBC journalist and International Director of CFOM (Centre for Freedom of the Media\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">(<\/span><a style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfom.org.uk\/wpcontent\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PACE-HORSLEY-FINAL-2014-REPORT-AAC-25_14-Flego-protection-of-media-freedom-18-June.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CFOM<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">),\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">220 journalists are behind bars worldwide. The Chinese has too the painful RSF leadership, but the CFOM says a third of the jailed journalists are in prison in Syria, Egypt, Russia and Myanmar (formerly Burma). In Iran there are 30 people imprisoned, 23 others Eritrea, all of them without charge, according to \u201cthe protection of media Freedom in Europe\u201d report CFOM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">In this case, the bars and murders match the same countries: Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. The CFOM says further that \u201cit is exercising police violence against journalists at the two ends countries of Europe: Russia and Spain\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30395 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 202px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 202\/231;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/laindependent.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/La_turcaSedef_Kabas.jpg\" alt=\"La turcaSedef Kabas\" width=\"202\" height=\"231\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">La periodista i presentadora de la TV turca, Sedef Kabas<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Turkey, the worst ranking against the liberties<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Turkey has the worst ranking of imprisoned since 2012, although their number is not encrypted. RSF says that \u201cabout 70 media workers face several lawsuits for publishing information about alleged corruption of the government of then Prime Minister <strong>Recep Yayyip Erdogan<\/strong>, now president, despite the closure of the Parliamentary Commission that investigated\u201d that cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Precisely for criticizing on Twitter this investigation in October 2014, <strong>Sedef Kabas<\/strong>, a well known journalist and Turkish television is on the list of defendants. The Turkish authorities entered his home and confiscated her cell phone and her computer. She was released by court order, despite the request of the prosecution to keep custody. <strong>Sedef Kabas<\/strong> has received threats from various members of the AKP (Justice and Development Party), in power since 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Also for a comment on Twitter one of the president&#8217;s Erdogan advisers was arrested on December 30 the journalist of the newspaper <em>Taraf<\/em>, <strong>Mehmet Baransu<\/strong>, as recorded by\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rsf-es.org\/news\/turquia-decenas-de-periodistas-procesados-por-cubrir-un-escandalo-de-corrupcion-politica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSF<\/a><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">But Turkey has also been disqualified in terms of freedom of information for obstructing and sometimes disconnecting internet access when the information does not agree to the above prime minister and now president. Erdogan also became notorious in late November for criticizing feminists for its demand the right to decide freely about motherhood, for rating of \u201cmurder\u201d abortion and for defend the exclusive role of \u2018mother\u2019 by women, which urged to have at least three babies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">The International PEN (Poets Essayists and Writers), which accounts for cases prosecuted or imprisoned writers and journalists, indicates that in 2014 the number had risen to 900 people, from 201 cases recorded in 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30396 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/laindependent.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MartaSibina.jpg\" alt=\"MartaSibina\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 269px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 269\/187;\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Marta Sibina de Caf\u00e8ambllet, abans d&#8217;entrar als jutjats<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Caf\u00e8ambllet as an example of institutional pressure<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">Marta Sibina<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">, co-editor of the Catalan magazine\u00a0<\/span><\/span><em style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeambllet.com\/rep-tota-la-informacio-al-teu-correu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caf\u00e8ambllet.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">has participated in 28<sup>th<\/sup> of November in Madrid, at a seminar on freedom of speech and information of the International Press Institute (IPI) in which the Spanish laws on defamation were analyzed. She and the other co-editor of Caf\u00e8AMBllet, <strong>Albano Dante<\/strong>, were brought to justice for having covered in their web magazine some corruption in the Catalan Health in 2012 in a video titled \u201c<em>el major robatori de la historia de Catalunya<\/em>\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">The trial, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeambllet.com\/press\/?p=17481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wide media coverage<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\">was held on September 27, 2012 and attended by hundreds of people before the courts, in support of the magazine. After a year of a long legal odyssey, Caf\u00e8AMBllet was acquitted of all charges.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 For the freedom of speech, political and religious satire and against the tyranny of silence, &#8216;Nous sommes toutes Charlie&#8220;. 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