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The new Communications Minister Mauricio Herrera announced that the Executive Branch sent to Congress a bill to repeal a standard of the current Law on Radio and Television, which is a ‘latent gag “to the media. (Luis Navarro)

The government will present to the legislative process a bill to repeal three indents of the current Law on Radio and Television, which fixed penalties to these media for the content of their publications.

President Luis Guillermo Solis proposes to eliminate three paragraphs of Article 17, where publication of vulgar language, contrary to morality or injurious, and the transmission of false news is prohíbela or alarm calls baseless.

Currently, the penalties for violating any of these rules range from financial penalties to the temporary cancellation of concessions.

Communications Minister, Mauricio Herrera, said that while this rule is in force since 1954 without being used, is” dangerous “and a” latent gag “to the media.

Herrera on project law repealing ‘Gag Rule’

“We consider it totally unnecessary that these prohibitions are maintained and, finally, is at this time we decided once and for all remove and maintain a more open regime healthy press freedom, without those sanctions are in place, “said Herrera.

That” gag rule “that aims to be removed by the executive branch through reform, is the same as was included but with more stringent penalties in elpolémico draft of the Law on Radio and Television, which drafted the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (Micitt).

For this text, President Solis lesolicitó last April 10, the renunciation of the hierarch of that portfolio, Gisela Kooper and the Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, Allan Ruiz for failing “when it comes to supervise the preparation and content of a draft bill” requested by the Comptroller General of the Republic, to regulate the operation of radio and television

Source:. Nation

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