Argentina - COMMUNITY RADIO station harassed

COMMUNITY radio station harassed ...
IFEX - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
AMARC is concerned about the intimidating act carried out on 17 May 2005
by officials from the National Communications Commission (CNC), who attempted
to enter ...

... AMARC is concerned about the intimidating act carried out on 17
May 2005 by officials from the National Communications Commission
(CNC), who attempted to enter FM De La Azotea radio station's
transmission facility in Mar del Plata without a search warrant or
prior notice.

During the incident, the officials told the journalists to stop
broadcasting, alleging that the station's radio signal was
interfering with that of the Brigadier de la Colina airport.

However, station managers report that the airport authorities whom
they consulted assured them that they had never made a complaint of
that nature, and moreover, that there had not been signal
interference from any media in recent months....

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Send appeals to the federal radio broadcasting committee (Comité
Federal de Radiodifusión, COMFER):
- asking it to instruct the CNC not to take any action against the
radio station, given the need to reform the radio broadcasting law.

Send letters of support to the radio station.

<http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/66879/>