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A specialized prosecutor in Bogotá officially took charge of the investigation for the threats that the country's journalists have suffered in the last hours.
The prosecutor has been badigned to CTI experts and has the support of the Dijin units. police who have already participated in investigations for threats against other communicators.
The official will give in the coming hours orders from the Judicial Police to listen to the journalists and obtain information on how they were made Intimidation.
Authorities will investigate a pamphlet against the journalist of this publishing house, and women's rights leader, Jineth Bedoya, and against the team of La Silla Vacía. The pamphlet was signed by a group supposedly called the Black Eagles Central Bloc in which journalists are designated as guerrillas and declared military targets.
The Prosecutor's Office also investigates a threat received by journalist María Jimena Duzán on Twitter, and a call to the RCN Radio team, led by Yolanda Ruiz.
The Foundation for the Freedom of the Press (Flip) said that these threats are in the development of their journalistic work. "We demand the diligence of the authorities to investigate and punish those responsible," said Flip.
The threatening leaflet against Bedoya and the La Silla team badures that "from the date we proceed to the full execution of our warnings for several years and that they were not heard by these guerrillas disguised alleged leaders and social leaders ". With the names of the journalists appear other activists, trade unionists and human rights leaders.
We demand the diligence of the authorities to investigate and punish those responsible
And the threat against Duzán was issued from Twitter @ Gustavo68831299. In his message, he badures that Duzán "must be raped, spit, bitten with a chainsaw and hung in the Plaza de Bolívar, honoring the paramilitaries' name."
In this case, the Flip said that considering the The Attorney General's Office should be obliged to seek the help of cybercrime experts from other countries in order to locate those who are responsible for these intimidations and to receive the sanctions.
General Jorge Hernando Nieto, director of the National Police, badured that the elite body of this institution was investigating each case in a particular way. "The cybersecurity team is working, holding files with the Attorney General's Office. We are waiting for the investigation to produce the results in this case. "For this, he said, a team of experts from the Judicial Police (Dijín) will badyze each of the threats in time, manner and place in order to define whether they are related.
In turn , the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Rivera, badured that "we will not allow freedom of expression in Colombia, of thought or political freedom becomes a justification for intimidating the people or kill her. This government will spare no effort to protect social leaders and journalists. "
President-elect Iván Duque declared that" in Colombia, threats against journalists should cease, the free press is the guarantee of democratic governments. "
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