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Judi Lynn

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Mon Apr 8, 2013, 04:03 PM Apr 2013

Bogota public TV station to promote human rights with UN help .

Bogota public TV station to promote human rights with UN help .
Friday, 05 April 2013 09:03 Parker Crooks

Public television channel, Canal Capital, signed an agreement with the United Nations (UN) on Friday to educate the public on human rights and create a culture of peace in Colombia's capital city of Bogota.

The signing was attended by the channel manager, Hollman Morris, Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro, and representative for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Todd Howland, who together formulated an agreement that will strengthen public education and hopefully result in "other channels to follow their example," said Todd Howland.

Channel manager, Hollman Morris explained to Colombia Reports how Canal Capital's stronger focus on human rights has set them apart on a national level.

"At the regional level, public television in the case of Canal in Bogota, planted a position of defending and promoting human rights and a culture of peace, but you can see many regional channels don't have an identity and Canal Capital has assumed a position that sets us apart nationally and we are going to stand out internationally as well," said Hollman Morris.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/28828-bogota-public-tv-station-to-promote-human-rights-with-un-help-.html

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This intrepid journalist has been studying at Harvard with a Fellowship Judi Lynn Apr 2013 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. This intrepid journalist has been studying at Harvard with a Fellowship
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 04:18 PM
Apr 2013

recently, after FINALLY getting past the US State Department's denial of a visa, after he and his family had been traveling everywhere in Colombia in bullet-proof cars, and he and his brother had been getting death threats steadily for ages for daring to write the truth about Colombia. He said at the time they could use a breather in going to the States.

This was posted in 2010 at D.U.:


State Department Denies Visa to Leading Colombian Journalist and Nieman Fellow
By Matthew Rothschild, June 29, 2010

His name is Hollman Morris, a highly acclaimed investigative reporter and TV journalist in Colombia. Among many prestigious awards, Morris received a “Defender of Human Rights” award from Human Rights Watch in 2007.

“A journalist and human rights activist, Morris has dedicated his career to uncovering the truth about atrocities committed on all sides: by right-wing paramilitaries, left-wing guerrillas, and government authorities,” said Human Rights Watch in granting him the award. “Morris has faced serious harassment and death threats for his work. . . . Human Rights Watch honors Morris for his courage and unfaltering dedication to exposing Colombia’s most egregious human rights abuses.”

On October 30, 2007, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns met with Morris and congratulated him personally for winning this award. Burns expressed “great admiration for his valiant work,” the State Department said.

That was then.
Now the State Department won’t deign to let him into the United States.
On June 16, the U.S. embassy in Bogotá denied his visa, Morris reports.
“Visa records are confidential,” says a State Department spokesperson, who refused to comment further on this case.

The Nieman Foundation at Harvard had selected Morris as one of its International Nieman Fellows for the next academic year in Cambridge, Mass.

More:
http://progressive.org/mc062910.html

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Colombian journalist and Nieman Fellow Hollman Morris denied visa

Renowned Colombian journalist Hollman Morris' U.S. visa application was rejected on June 16, The Progressive is reporting. The story did not say why the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá denied his visa.

Morris needs a visa because he has been selected as one of the Harvard Nieman Foundation's International Nieman Fellows.

“We were surprised by the decision and are committed to do everything we can to get Hollman here in the fall,” Bob Giles, Nieman Foundation curator, is quoted as saying in the article.

Morris directs the award-winning TV program Contravia, which presents a critical view of Colombia's armed conflict.

More:
http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/?q=en/node/7655


Hollman Morris denied US visa .
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:13 Hannah Stone

Prominent Colombian journalist Hollman Morris was denied a visa to the U.S., reports The Progressive. In April, documents came to light which apparently revealed security agency DAS's plot against Morris, including a plan to "request suspension of visa."

Morris' visa was denied on June 16, according to The Progressive. He applied for the visa in order to take up his place as International Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.

Morris, an outspoken critic of the Colombian government, was a target of DAS's surveillance of a range of individuals and organisations considered to be opponents of President Alvaro Uribe's government, including opposition politicians, human rights workers, and Supreme Court judges.

In April, Morris was given files by the prosecutor general which allegedly belong to the DAS. The files include Morris' photograph and address, and instructions such as "Initiate a smear campaign at the international level, through the following activities ... inclusion in FARC video," and "Request the suspension of visa." Cipcol, a U.S. organization which published the files online, interprets this statement to mean Morris' U.S. visa.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/10572-hollman-morris-denied-us-visa.html

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