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The Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP), an NGO that monitors violations of press freedom in Colombia, spoke out in response to the notification of an arrest warrant against journalist Gonzalo Guillén.
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This is because Judge 44 Civil of the Bogotá Circuit ordered the journalist’s three-day arrest for allegedly having breached a court order that forced him to rectify a comment made about Carlos Barros.
Faced with this, FLIP asserted that the measures ordered “-especially the arrest warrant- are disproportionate to the facts, mainly if one takes into account that the journalist has already published a rectification.”
The lawsuit began in December 2019 after the journalist assured in his account from Twitter that this person would be the front man of the drug trafficker Marcos Figueroa, alias Marquitos.
Given this, Barros Corrales asked the journalist a month later to retract the statements made, assuring that they were false.
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The matter continued and a second instance guardianship was ruled against Guillén on February 25, 2020. The journalist assures that for his contempt they ordered his arrest for three days, he was fined five minimum legal monthly wages in force and must rectify the trill by publishing an opinion column in EL TIEMPO or El spectator.
I won the first guardianship of people from La Guajira and a civil court sentenced me in the second to rectify a trill by publishing an opinion column in @TIME the @viewer, which have nothing to do with it. In addition, I was sentenced to three days of arrest and a fine of about $ 10 million.
– Gonzalo Guillén (@HELIODOPTERO) September 17, 2020
After the sanction, the journalist Guillén rectified his statements, assuring that the comment he wrote is an opinion that has no basis in a judicial decision.
“Complying with Ruling of the 44th Civil Court of the Bogotá Circuit, I rectify: The opinion that I issued of Carlos Barros Corrales is not truthful because the appellations of narco and front man have no basis in a judicial decision,” he trilled.
Complying with Ruling of the 44th Civil Court of the Bogotá Circuit, I rectify: The opinion that I issued of Carlos Barros Corrales is not true because the appellations of narco and figurehead have no basis in a judicial decision.
– Gonzalo Guillén (@HELIODOPTERO) September 17, 2020
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FLIP argued that “although in the tutela action he had been ordered to rectify in the national media, this order is disproportionate if one takes into account that the publications made by the journalist were made only on Twitter.”
In addition, it warns that as the journalist published another rectification (on his Twitter) in accordance with the provisions of the court, “with these decisions an adverse message is sent about the knowledge and application of the standards of protection of press freedom in the administration of Justice”.
“For FLIP, this ignorance fosters a climate of silence in journalism,” he said.
Finally, the organization called for a review of the contempt decision “taking into account said standards and the rectifications, and accordingly the orders issued be reviewed.”
ELTIEMPO.COM
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