Ecuador Newspaper Fined by Government

Posted on July 15, 2014 • Filed under: Ecuador

ifex.org reported the repressive effects of Ecuador’s one-year-old communications law can be seen in a regulator’s decision to fine a newspaper just days after the daily said the law was the reason it was shuttering its print edition, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today.

Ecuador’s Communication and Information Superintendence Office (SUPERCOM), which the communications law created to monitor compliance, sanctioned daily HOY’s publisher with a USD$57,800 (€47,510) fine on July 4 for an alleged failure to publish the number of printed copies in circulation on 17 editions in May and June.

The fine followed HOY’s June 29 announcement that it was ending its print edition due to “an environment adverse to the development of a free and independent daily publication”. Read Article


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