"All of the reporters who are suffering this kind of intimidation are reporters who have investigated human rights violations or who have had to testify because of our investigations, " Mr Weibel said.
Javier Rebolledo, author of a book about human rights violations carried out by the secret police under military rule, had his computer hard disk stolen and Cristobal Pena, who wrote a political thriller set in the Pinochet era, had his entire computer stolen, Mr Weibel told Chilean radio.