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 Bogotas public television network serves terrorism.
During a September debate on Uribes alleged links with paramilitaries and the Medellin Cartel of Pablo Escobar, Uribe called Bogotas Canal Capital and Venezuelas 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 administrations 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.)