(WiPC/IFEX) – On 5 October 2001, journalist, professor and sociologist Antero Gargurevich Oliva was released from prison after serving eight-and-a-half years of a twelve-year sentence. The unconditional release comes after a review of his case by a body set up by the Ministry of Justice. Gargurevich Oliva was arrested on 6 March 1993 and sentenced […]
(WiPC/IFEX) – On 5 October 2001, journalist, professor and sociologist Antero Gargurevich Oliva was released from prison after serving eight-and-a-half years of a twelve-year sentence. The unconditional release comes after a review of his case by a body set up by the Ministry of Justice.
Gargurevich Oliva was arrested on 6 March 1993 and sentenced on the grounds of alleged links with the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla group, an accusation he has always denied. The only evidence produced against him was some Marxist literature and a few Sendero Luminoso documents given him by students for his studies on violence in Peru.
In September 2000, Gargurevich Oliva staged a hunger strike with journalist and poet Juan de Mata Jara Berrospi to call attention to their situation and their frustration at the lack of progress in the Peruvian courts. Jara Berrospi, along with journalists Pedro Carranza Ugaz and Javier Tuanama Valera, remain in prison pending review of their cases (see IFEX alerts of 18 December and 18 October 2000 and 17 November 1995).
