(IPYS/IFEX) – On 25 November 2004, after receiving repeated death threats, journalist Renán Palacios was forced to flee his home in the city of Ica and go into hiding with his wife in the capital, Lima. IPYS helped to coordinate Palacios’s move to Lima. The threats have been sent via text messages to Palacios’s mobile […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 25 November 2004, after receiving repeated death threats, journalist Renán Palacios was forced to flee his home in the city of Ica and go into hiding with his wife in the capital, Lima. IPYS helped to coordinate Palacios’s move to Lima.
The threats have been sent via text messages to Palacios’s mobile phone. The decision to flee Ica was made on 24 November, after Palacios received the ninth threat, in which he was informed that he would be killed that night. On 23 November, Palacios asked the Ica Subprefecture to provide him with protection. He also appeared on several local television stations condemning the intimidation to which he is being subjected. The authorities have thus far failed to provide Palacios with the protection he has requested.
Although Palacios is hiding in Lima, the threats sent to his mobile phone have continued. On 26 November, he received another text message saying, “If you leave your house, you are dead.”
