(IPYS/IFEX) – On 29 January 2007, journalists Julio Quevedo Chávez and Lénin Quevedo Bardalez of the newspaper “Diario Voces” and reporters Glenda Mello Pinedo and Felipe Tipián Ramírez of the television programme “Enfoques”, were accused of the crimes of defamation and slander. Doctor Felipe Cesías filed the accusation with Tarapoto’s Second Criminal Court after both […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 29 January 2007, journalists Julio Quevedo Chávez and Lénin Quevedo Bardalez of the newspaper “Diario Voces” and reporters Glenda Mello Pinedo and Felipe Tipián Ramírez of the television programme “Enfoques”, were accused of the crimes of defamation and slander. Doctor Felipe Cesías filed the accusation with Tarapoto’s Second Criminal Court after both media outlets reported, in October 2006, about alleged medical negligence on the part of Cesías. Tarapoto is a town in northeastern Peru.
The reports were based on the recorded testimonies of people who say they have been the victims of Cesías’s negligence. The doctor has requested civil damages of 50,000 nuevos soles (US$15 thousand) from the “Diario Voces” journalists and 70 thousand nuevos soles (US$18 thousand) from the “Enfoques” reporters.
The journalists have already been notified by the bench presided over by Judge Juan López Díaz regarding the legal action against them.
