“The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) reported that journalist Yeison Rojas, a correspondent for Teleantioquia in the Urabá subregion, was threatened by alleged members of the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC), who ordered him to leave the territory with his family before midnight on March 2.
According to the organization, Rojas received a phone call in which a man who identified himself as the group’s second-in-command instructed him to leave the region.
FLIP said the context suggests the threat may be retaliation for his reporting and aimed at forcing self-censorship and restricting journalistic work in this banana-growing area, one of the subregions most affected by violence from armed groups in the department.”
