(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 August 2006, the First Transitory Criminal Bench of the Supreme Court of Perú upheld the 30-year prison sentence imposed by the Superior Court of Ucayali on Erwin Pérez Pinedo and Ángel Mendoza Casanova, for the first degree murder of journalist Alberto Rivera. The Supreme Court also raised the amount of civil […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 August 2006, the First Transitory Criminal Bench of the Supreme Court of Perú upheld the 30-year prison sentence imposed by the Superior Court of Ucayali on Erwin Pérez Pinedo and Ángel Mendoza Casanova, for the first degree murder of journalist Alberto Rivera. The Supreme Court also raised the amount of civil reparations granted to the victim’s relatives from 50 thousand to 100 thousand nuevos soles (approx. US$30,000), to be paid jointly by the convicted men. Rivera was killed in April 2004 by two shots fired into his chest because of the work he did as a journalist, in the city of Pucallpa, Ucayali region, eastern Peru.
In the case of the two other accused men, Martín Flores Vásquez and Roy Culqui Saurino, sentenced to 25 years in prison by the court in Ucayali, the Transitory Criminal Court will summon another judge to settle the stalemate reached by the Supreme Court judges after some of them argued that these men should be convicted only of causing serious bodily harm to the victim and therefore sentenced only to eight years in prison.
