Journalists Form Human Chain in Protest
Journalists and Panama newspaper guild members formed a human chain around noon on Wednesday in defense of freedom of expression.
Near the former Dante Mansion on 50th Street – not far from the razed Obarrio Green Lung – they held signs and shouted: “Journalists united will never be defeated.”
The journalists, joined by academics and human rights activists, object to threatening phone calls made by top government officials to the media; and to the Second Superior Court’s recent sentencing of journalists Sabrina Bacal, Justino Gonzalez and Rafael Antonio Ruiz as libelous or slanderous, depending on the case.
Panama Journalists For Freedom of Expression PHOTO La Prensa - Carlos Gonzalez
[...] Incidentally, journalists were picketing against government limits on their freedom of expression in Panama the day the report was published. [...]