On Friday 20 December 2019, Oscar Pérez Cortez left his home at 15:00 hrs on his way to the centre of Santiago, he was going to demonstrate against animal
“The Chilean government must respond to this tragedy by stepping up protection for Chile’s journalists, who are working in an increasingly dangerous environment” - RSF.
On Sunday, May 1st, Francisca Sandoval, an independent media journalist, was shot in the face. Since that day and after a complex operation to remove the
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Chile’s new government to reinforce mechanisms for protecting journalists following community TV reporter Francisca Sandoval’s tragic death in hospital yesterday from the gunshot injury she sustained during a May Day march in the capital, Santiago, on 1 May.