IAPA condemned the attack against Colombian journalists on a university campus

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the badault and destruction of journalistic material to a journalist and a press photographer The country of Cali, Colombiaand called on the authorities to investigate the facts and make officials available to justice.

El País reported that on Monday morning, a photojournalist and a journalist from this newspaper were reprimanded inside the Universidad del Valle, preventing them from working, while they had been there. Permission required to enter the campus of this educational center. The team of journalists was preparing to follow the riots of April 3 in this educational center that killed one and injured several others.

The president of SIP, María Elvira Domínguez, also director of El País de Cali, said that "the security of our press team is a priority, that is why we condemn this aggression". In addition, he publicly called on the authorities to investigate the facts as quickly as possible and said that "those responsible should be put at the disposal of justice".

The journalists they were picked up by about 10 people, alleged students, who asked to show their press identifications and photographic equipment. 20 other people approached, They scolded the photographer and hit him in the chest. University security staff managed to get the photojournalist out of a campus bike.

Roberto Rock, chair of the IAPA Press Freedom and Information Committee and director of the Mexican portal La Silla Rota, added to the condemnation while recalling that restrictions on journalistic work, the limitations and obstacles to the mobilization of journalists journalists and the flow of information, are directly opposed to the freedom of the press, as stated in the Declaration of Chapultepec and other international documents on the freedom of the press # 39; s expression.