"On Dec. 17, Sebastián Cabrera, a journalist for the newspaper El País [of Uruguay], received a call from Police Station 11 in Piriápolis. He was informed that he had to appear at the station to give a statement because a complaint had been filed against him for defamation, stemming from a news article about Richard Tesore, founder of the NGO SOS Rescate Fauna Marina, published in the newspaper where he works, as the journalist recounted in an article published in El País.
On Dec. 29, two police officers from the second precinct in Montevideo went to the newspaper office looking for Cabrera. Since they couldn't find him, they left a phone number for him to call. Later, they returned, accompanied by a sergeant, and left a summons on official letterhead from the Directorate of Investigations, ordering the journalist to appear at the police station to give a statement [...]
Cabrera testified at the police station for an hour about the content of the article, and on more than one occasion the journalist had to clarify that the accusations and complaints made in the article against Tesore were not made by him, but by residents of Punta Colorada."
