Claim
Claim 151
A subcommittee reported that approximately 500 journalists were forced to leave Argentina for political reasons, while documenting 68 missing journalists and 80 detained.
- Statement
- A subcommittee reported that approximately 500 journalists were forced to leave Argentina for political reasons, while documenting 68 missing journalists and 80 detained.
- Field
- effect_on_reporting
- Value
- 500 journalists left the country
- Source
- Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Argentina, Chapter VII: The Right to Freedom of Investigation, Opinion, Expression and Dissemination archived copy
- Publisher
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States
- Method
- primary document
- Checked
- 2026-09-22
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
- Source date
- 1980
Quotation from the source
approximately 500 journalists were forced to leave the country for political reasons