(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 July 2006, journalists José Flores Burgos and Alberto Pintado Villaverde, both of the radio station Radio La Voz de Bagua Grande, filed a complaint with local authorities about having been threatened with death by Pedro Granados Ramírez. Days before, they had accused Granados of practicing medicine in the city of Utcubamba, […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 July 2006, journalists José Flores Burgos and Alberto Pintado Villaverde, both of the radio station Radio La Voz de Bagua Grande, filed a complaint with local authorities about having been threatened with death by Pedro Granados Ramírez. Days before, they had accused Granados of practicing medicine in the city of Utcubamba, in Amazonas province, ; northeastern Peru, without actually being a doctor.
According to the journalists, Granados approached Flores’s brother, who also works at the radio station, in the street and warned him that he was going to kill the journalists who had accused him. Granados did not mention the journalists by name.
Flores and Pintado have requested protection from the local Sub-Prefecture.
