(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 August 2005, Hugo Gonzáles Hinostroza, a reporter for the daily “Expresión” in Huaraz, northern Peru, received a phone call warning him to stop investigating the 2004 murder of journalist Antonio de La Torre, otherwise he and his family would be targeted. The journalist told IPYS that he received several calls during […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 August 2005, Hugo Gonzáles Hinostroza, a reporter for the daily “Expresión” in Huaraz, northern Peru, received a phone call warning him to stop investigating the 2004 murder of journalist Antonio de La Torre, otherwise he and his family would be targeted.
The journalist told IPYS that he received several calls during the first week of August, the most distressing of which has been this last one. Gonzáles attributed the threats to persons connected to the former mayor of the Provincial Municipality of Yungay, Amaro León León, who remains in jail on charges of having had De La Torre murdered. According to the journalist, he has written a number of articles criticising inexplicable delays in the prosecution of the De La Torre murder. Gonzáles intends to ask for protection from the city’s sub-prefecture.
