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| Title | Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2006 - Paraguay |
| Publisher | Reporters Without Borders |
| Country | Paraguay |
| Publication Date | 3 May 2006 |
| Cite as | Reporters Without Borders, Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2006 - Paraguay, 3 May 2006, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/46e690a4c.html [accessed 31 May 2012] |
| Disclaimer | This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States. |
Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2006 - Paraguay
Press freedom is satisfactory despite civil liberties still not being taken for granted after 35 years of dictatorship (1954-89). The few attacks on the media mostly target provincial community radio stations that criticise local officials.
The offices of the station Quebracho Poty, in the northeastern town of Puerto Quebracho, were burned down on 2 August 2005 in a petrol bomb attack. The station Ñemity FM, in the northern town of Capiibary, was shut down the same month and its equipment seized by order of the local prosecutor for supposedly broadcasting illegally. Nicolás Sotelo, head of FM San Juan, in the southern town of San Juan del Paraná, was physically attacked and threatened with a revolver at the station on 10 October by Aldo Lepretti, a local politician who had been criticised on the air.
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