The president of the AFSCA media watchdog Martín Sabbatella has questioned judge Pablo Cayssials’s decision to suspend the Clarín Media Group’s forced reorganization, saying Cayssials’s argument is a lie.
The judge, head of the Federal Administrative National Court N°9, placed an injunction that stops Clarín’s forced reorganization following a lawsuit presented by journalists Julio Blanck, Nelson Castro, Jorge Fernández Díaz, Jorge Lanata, Alfredo Leuco and Marcelo Longobardi, among others.
“The argument that the judge endorses says that forced reorganization could infringe freedom of speech, and would mean an indirect censorship towards those journalists, but this has been proved absolutely false; not only by those who worked with the President to apply this law, but by the Supreme Court of Justice itself,” Sabbatella said today.
“This proves once more that a part of the judicial corporation is allied together with big businessmen to favor [economic] concentration and to assure privileges the Media Law prohibits,” he added.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald