New York, February 17, 2006— The Committee to Protect Journalists today called for investigations into two incidents in which journalists have been shot dead in Ecuador this week. In both cases it is unclear whether the journalists were killed for their work.
On Monday, radio reporter José Luis Léon Desiderio was killed in the coastal city of Guayaquil. León, host of a daily news program “Opinión” on local Radio Minutera, often denounced gang violence and police inaction in the city, Alejandro Alvarez, a reporter for the daily El Universo told CPJ.
On Monday, radio reporter José Luis Léon Desiderio was killed in the coastal city of Guayaquil. León, host of a daily news program “Opinión” on local Radio Minutera, often denounced gang violence and police inaction in the city, Alejandro Alvarez, a reporter for the daily El Universo told CPJ.
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