(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 August 2005, Félix Calva Guerrero, a correspondent for Radio Santa Rosa Chirinos, was released after being kept in custody by the National Police for three days in Cerro Corazón de Jesus, Huancabamba province, in the northern region of Piura. Calva was detained while he was covering a violent protest march on […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 August 2005, Félix Calva Guerrero, a correspondent for Radio Santa Rosa Chirinos, was released after being kept in custody by the National Police for three days in Cerro Corazón de Jesus, Huancabamba province, in the northern region of Piura. Calva was detained while he was covering a violent protest march on 1 August (see IFEX alert of 8 August 2005). His tape recorder, camera and personal belongings have not been returned to him.
On 12 August, Calva told IPYS that before he was let go, after making a statement to the district attorney, he asked about the whereabouts of his equipment. According to the journalist, the district attorney told him the objects would be withheld as part of the evidence in connection with the protest that left one person dead and around fifty wounded. Calva will send an appeal to the Ombudsman’s Office for help in retrieving his equipment.
