José Antonio Sossa is a Panamanian politician who served as Attorney General of Panama under President Mireya Moscoso.
The complaint cited a series of stories the paper published in 1999 reporting that a drug trafficker had donated to one of Sossa's political campaigns.
[2] In August, Sossa ordered police to the homes of the four journalists to compel them to come to court to testify.
[1] In May, he attempted to jail El Siglo reporter Carlos Singares for alleging that he had pressured journalists, but reversed himself after criticism by President Moscoso; the following month, he did jail Singares for eight days without trial for reporting in an article that Sossa had visited underage prostitutes.
[1][3] In December, he barred journalists from investigating buried human remains at a military barracks, but was again overruled by Moscoso.