(IPYS/IFEX) – On 16 January 2007, Ramiro Bardales Sánchez, a photographer with the Audiovisual Unit of the Loreto regional government’s Institutional Image Office (Unidad de Audiovisuales de la Oficina de Imagen Institucional) was beaten by a group of demonstrating members of the General confederation of Workers of Peru (Confederación General de Trabajadores del Perú, CGTP) […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 16 January 2007, Ramiro Bardales Sánchez, a photographer with the Audiovisual Unit of the Loreto regional government’s Institutional Image Office (Unidad de Audiovisuales de la Oficina de Imagen Institucional) was beaten by a group of demonstrating members of the General confederation of Workers of Peru (Confederación General de Trabajadores del Perú, CGTP) while he was filming their protest in front of the regional government’s headquarters. Loreto is a region in Peru’s northeast.
Upon filming the demonstrators, the camera operator was surrounded by the crowd, which struck him until he fell to the ground. Army troops intervened and stopped the assault. Bardales suffered minor injuries.
The authorities have not yet been able to identify the assailants.
