Costa Rica

The constitutional chamber of the Costa Rican Supreme Court ruled on March 21, 2014, that the government's secret monitoring of phone records of the San José-based daily Diario Extra as part of a leak investigation was unconstitutional, according to news reports. Diario Extra reported in January that the Judicial Investigative Organism (OIJ), along with agents from the narcotics and organised...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has welcomed a Costa Rican court's ruling that government surveillance of a reporter's phone records was unconstitutional. Costa Rica's Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court made the ruling Friday (March 21, 2014) in the case of Diario Extra journalist, Manuel Estrada, who was targeted by the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) after he wrote an...

Costa Rica may suffer a blow to its image as one of Latin America’s beacons of democracy after a government agency was accused of spying on one of the country’s most popular daily newspapers. Diario Extra reported that the Investigative Police Body in Costa Rica, or the OIJ, had been monitoring and recording the telephone conversations of one its reporters. The daily published a story on...

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for a full investigation into reports that Costa Rican officials secretly monitored the phone records of the San José-based daily Diario Extra as part of a leak investigation. Diario Extra reported on Monday that the Judicial Investigative Organism (OIJ), along with agents from the narcotics and organized crime division, had been tracking outgoing and...