(IPYS/IFEX) – The senior management of “La Razon” newspaper reported to IPYS that on the night of 6 March 2008 one of their journalists – whose name they preferred to keep confidential – was surrounded and threatened by a group of the ruling party’s sympathisers, while she was covering a violent clash between members of […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – The senior management of “La Razon” newspaper reported to IPYS that on the night of 6 March 2008 one of their journalists – whose name they preferred to keep confidential – was surrounded and threatened by a group of the ruling party’s sympathisers, while she was covering a violent clash between members of President Evo Morales’s party and anti-government demonstrators in a square in La Paz, the capital.
The journalist identified Adolfo Cerrado as the instigator of the aggression; he and nine other men surrounded her and threatened to rape her after she took their photographs.
The journalist managed to escape with the help of a police officer.
