Tuesday, September 8, 2015

OAS court orders Venezuela to let opposition TV outlet return to airwaves


The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Monday published a ruling in which it ordered the Venezuelan government to reinstate the broadcasting license of Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, which has been confined to cable and satellite since being forced off the air in 2007. The Costa Rica-based court, a body of the Organization of American States, ruled that it had been "proved that in the present case an indirect restriction was imposed on the exercise of the right to freedom of expression resulting from the use of measures designed to impede the communication and circulation of ideas and opinions."More….

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