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Chilean police shoot 2 journalists with rubber bullets at activist’s funeral procession

  • Source: CPJ
  • July 14, 2021

"On July 7, at about 6 p.m., agents with the Chilean Investigative Police shot rubber bullets at [journalists Vicente Rojas López and Felipe García] while they were covering the funeral procession of activist Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda as it passed in front of the Investigative Police headquarters in Santiago, the capital, hitting García in the face and Rojas in the foot, according to press reports, video of the shooting posted to social media, and Rojas, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.

Rojas is the founder and director of the independent news agency Panoptik, and García is a freelance journalist, according to those sources."

 

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