TV station illegally holds five of its journalists for 60 hours – Reporters sans frontières – Argentina

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the way the management of Buenos Aires-based TV station Canal 9 held five of its journalists – Matías Castro, Laura Mayocchi, Hernán Sinainside, Verónica Lazzaro and Carina Alvarez – inside its headquarters without access to water, electricity, air conditioning and toilets for 60 hours, between 7 and 9 January, after they protested against the dismissal of six colleagues. Two of them, Verónica Lazzaro and Carina Alvarez, had to be hospitalised.

“A labour dispute should be resolved by dialogue and negotiation, not by such brutal methods,” the press freedom organisation said. “We condemn the behaviour of Canal 9’s management, we voice our solidarity with the journalists who were illegally detained and we call on the station’s owner to provide an explanation.””*

*From: www.rsf.org
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