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Judi Lynn

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Thu Oct 2, 2014, 05:25 PM Oct 2014

Uribe called to trial for accusing TV network of being terrorism facilitators

Uribe called to trial for accusing TV network of being terrorism facilitators
Oct 2, 2014 posted by Nicolas Bedoya

Former president and current senator Alvaro Uribe was called to testify for claiming the capital Bogota’s public television network “serves terrorism.”

During a September debate on Uribe’s alleged links with paramilitaries and the Medellin Cartel of Pablo Escobar, Uribe called Bogota’s Canal Capital and Venezuela’s Telesur “media outlets that serves terrorism.”
The statement has proved to create more problems for the already scandal-plagued ex-president.

Prosecution accepts charges

Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre said, “We are going to call Uribe to testify because of the gravity of his statements, and he will have the opportunity to present the evidence with which he sustains his supposed thesis that Canal Capital, a respectable media outlet, is part of terrorist actions.”

Canal Capital is the most threatened news organization in Colombia, according to El Universal. The director of Canal Capital, Hollman Morris, reminded former President Uribe that unsubstantiated words, like those Uribe said in the political debate, have resulted in the death of many journalists.

Morris — a vociferous critic of the Uribe administration’s human rights record — was arbitrarily detained on a number of occasions during the Uribe administration when he was reporting for alternative newscast Contravia. Back then, Uribe and his then-Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos accused the journalist of working together with the FARC.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/former-president-uribe-must-explain-blatant-attack-colombias-press/

(You may recall Hollman Morris has had to keep bullet-proof cars for himself and his family for years by necessity.)

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Uribe called to trial for accusing TV network of being terrorism facilitators (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2014 OP
I get the impression that if Uribe were a US politician, he'd be a teabagger. Louisiana1976 Oct 2014 #1
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