Award-winning Colombian journalist Hollman Morris called on Congress to listen to the victims of wiretaps as testimony in the trial and investigation of former president Álvaro Uribe for illegal wiretapping and spying on journalists and opposition politicians, according to El Espectador.
Morris, director of the television program Contravía and former Nieman fellow at Harvard, accused Uribe of using the televised legal proceedings against the journalist as a way to broadcast lies about him.
“In short, as a defense strategy, the ex-president took advantage of the media situation to reiterate an infinite series of slander, insults, and lies against me, putting himself in the position of 'victim' in the process," Morris said, as quoted by Radio Santa Fe.
Earlier this year Morris was awarded the International Nuremberg Human Rights prize.
