Mauricio Herrera Ulloa

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Charge:	Libel
Sentence:	40 years
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Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Costa Rica
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted of libel for four articles he wrote as a reporter for Costa Rica's “La Nación” newspaper. The newspaper was also convicted of the same offenses. The articles alleged that a Costa Rican diplomat had committed various illegal acts abroad. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights accepted a petition for the case and determined that the convictions violated Ulloa and 'La Nacion's' right to free expression. Ulloa was sentenced to 120 days in fines, or 300,000 colones, while “La Nación” was fined 60 million colones for moral damages or injury to the diplomat's reputation caused by the publication of the articles, plus one thousand colones for court costs and three million eight hundred ten thousand colones for personal costs"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Hispanic
Information Source 1:	"La Nación" Newspaper Case, Order of the Court of December 6, 2001, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (Ser. E) (2001)."
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Mauricio Herrera Ulloa

Charge:

Libel

Sentence:

40 years

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Costa Rica

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"La Nación" Newspaper Case, Order of the Court of December 6, 2001, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (Ser. E) (2001)."

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http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/E/nacion12-6-01.html

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