(IPYS/IFEX) – On 24 November 2006, Radio Cushin journalist José Ramírez Villacorta, who is also a correspondent for Radio Ancash, was ordered jailed by Judge Demetrio Vela Marroquín. The judge concluded that the journalist had participated in the acts of violence perpetrated on 21 November by a group of citizens who were dissatisfied with the […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 24 November 2006, Radio Cushin journalist José Ramírez Villacorta, who is also a correspondent for Radio Ancash, was ordered jailed by Judge Demetrio Vela Marroquín. The judge concluded that the journalist had participated in the acts of violence perpetrated on 21 November by a group of citizens who were dissatisfied with the results of the municipal elections in the district of Huari, Ancash region, northwestern Peru.
IPYS’s correspondent in the region was able to confirm, by looking at the photographs and video analysed by the judge, that the journalist only appears covering a peaceful protest march, which took place in the afternoon of that same day, but not in the video of the evening’s violent demonstration.
The judicial measure is a preventive one and will be applied while the judge completes his investigation of the case, for which 14 people have been arrested.
