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Date:          Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:08:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:          ifex@web.net (IFEX)


IFEX- News from the international freedom of expression community
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CORRECTION TO ACTION ALERT - URUGUAY

30 July 1997

Correction to alert regarding draft legislation to penalise
community radio operators

SOURCE: World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC),
Montreal

**Corrects IFEX alert dated 25 July 1997**

(AMARC/IFEX) - There was an error in translation in the alert on
concerns over draft legislation in Uruguay which would penalise
community radio operators. AMARC clarifies that, under the
provisions of the draft legislation, the alleged "crimes" of
discrediting the integrity or altering the unity of the State, or of
villifying National Symbols, etc...  are to receive the same
punishment as broadcasting information on "how to make bombs, prepare
explosive substances, [and] mix toxic gases, asphyxiants or flammable
material" (and not that the legislation would also penalize community
radio station who broadcast such information, as was stated in the
alert). Neither AMARC nor the Uruguayan Coordinadora de Radios
Comunitarias support the broadcasting of recipes for explosive or
toxic materials.

The Clearing House regrets the error.

Please continue sending appeals to:

Dr. Julio Maria Sanguinetti
President
Montevideo, Uruguay
Fax: +598 2 80 93 97
or Fax via +598 2 80 75 61 (Elias Bluth, President's Secretary)

Representative Walter Vener Carboni
President of the Defence Commission
Chamber of Deputies
Fax: +598 2 23 55 38

Representative Luis Fontes
President of the Human Rights Commission
Chamber of Deputies
Fax: +598 2 23 55 38

Please copy appeals to AMARC-Uruguay:

Fax: +598 2 49 16 56

For further information, contact Bruce Girard, AMARC, Av.
Atahualpa 333, Casilla 17-08-8489, Quito, Ecuador, telefax: +593 2 501
180 or 551 674, fax in Montreal, Canada: +1 514 221 2009, e- mail:
bgirard@pulsar.org.ec. Or, contact AMARC at 3575 St-Laurent, Suite
611, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2T7 Canada, tel: +1 514 982 0351, fax: +1
514 849 7129, e-mail: amarc@web.net, Internet:
http://www.web.net/amarc/.

The information contained in this correction is the sole
responsibility of AMARC. In citing this material for broadcast or
publication, please credit AMARC.
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Bruce Girard             Agencia Informativa Pulsar
Email: bgirard@pulsar.org.ec
http://www.web.net/amarc/pulsar.html
Fono/Fax: +593-2-501 180 o 551 674
Fax en Montreal, Canada: +1-514-221-2009
Av. Atahualpa 333, Casilla 17-08-8489, Quito, Ecuador