Journalists lose appeal against award to judge
Jean Marcel Chery, and Gustavo Aparicio
Journalists Jean Marcel Chery, and Gustavo Aparicio lost their appeal against a civil judgment ordering the payment of $20,000 following a lawsuit filed in 2005 by former judge of the Supreme Court Winston Spadafora.
The opinion, of Judge Carlos Raul Trujillo, upheld a May 2009 judgment of the civil Twelfth Court.
Santiago Fascetto Epasa Group CEO, branded the ruling as an attack on press freedom.
Chery-current editor of the newspaper El Siglo- considered the judgment “absurd”.
