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Ecuador newspaper owners, writer, sentenced three years for slander
Feb 16, 2012, 19:50 GMT
Quito - Ecuador's Supreme Court Thursday upheld three-year jail sentences for a writer and three newspaper owners who were found guilty of slandering President Rafael Correa.
In addition, the newspaper El Universo was fined 40 million dollars.
Correa attended the hearing and declared his satisfaction with the result. 'The truth has shone through,' he told reporters. 'We have shown that you can not only bring the little clowns to justice but also the circus owners.'
The sentence provoked condemnation from Reporters Without Borders, a media rights organization. El Universo's lawyer Joffre Campaña vowed to take the case to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and Court.
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