Peru

**Updates IFEX alerts dated 6 June, 1 May, 12 April 1996, 15 August 1995, and others** In spite of repeated promises made to IPYS and Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) as well as to Carlos Rivera, the lawyer for imprisoned journalist Jesus Alfonso Castiglione Mendoza, Dr Marcos Ibazeta, the President of the Superior Court, still has […]

Three journalists have been charged with defaming the former manager of the water treatment service in the city of Tarapoto, Carlo Magno Pasquel Cardenas. The journalists are Julio Alberto Quevedo Chavez of the magazine “El Tarapotino”, Luis Humberto Hidalgo Sanchez of Radio Tarapoto, and Cesar Herrera Luna of the magazine “El Achichito”, each one the […]

Source: Coordinadora Nacional de Radio On 14 June 1996, Teobaldo Melendez Fachin, a reporter for Radio Oriente Panamericana Television, was assaulted by soldiers from the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) in the city of Yurimaquas. The incident occurred as Melendez was covering the arrival at Yurimaquas airport of the Bishop of Callao province, Miguel Irizar Campos. […]

**Updates IFEX alert dated 7 June 1996** On 8 June 1996, Radio Oriental reporter Miguel Perez Julca was released from prison after the intervention of congresswoman and journalist Elferez Vidarte, who got in touch with both the Congressional Human Rights and Pacification Commission and State Prosecutor Blanca Nelida Colan in order to procure his release. […]

In the beginning of May 1996, an arrest warrant was issued for Miguel Perez Julca, a reporter for Radio Oriental. Then, on 6 June, a colleague of Perez at Radio Maranon got a telephone call from Perez saying that he had been arrested and taken to the El Milagro military base. He is to be […]

**Updates IFEX alerts dated 1 May, 12 April and 12 March 1996, 15 August 1995, and others** On 31 May 1996, a delegation made up of representatives from Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) and the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) met with President Alberto Fujimori, who expressed interest in the case of imprisoned journalist Jesus […]

**Updates IFEX alert dated 23 May 1996** Source: “La Republica” daily newspaper Ricardo Palma Michelsen, owner of Lima’s Radio Miraflores radio station, succeeded in getting the order to detain him overturned in the ongoing tax evasion case against him. He was freed on 500,000 soles bail (US$ 206,000). However, Criminal Court Eleven judge William Paco […]

On 22 May 1996, police came to the home of Adolfo Fasanando, Panamericana Television’s correspondent in the city of Tarapoto, department of Huanuco, to summon him to the police station. Waiting were Colonel Nestor Via, regional head of police operations (Jefe del Frente Policial) for the province of San Martin, department of Huanuco, and provincial […]

**Updates IFEX alerts dated 17 May 1996** The commission that investigated the incident on 3 May 1996 involving the conduct of Lima police officers during a protest by striking municipal employees issued its report last week, concluding that the head of the Lima police, Jose La Madrid Ponce, was to blame. His handling of the […]

On 16 May 1996, the owner of Radio Miraflores, Ricardo Palma Michelsen, was arrested for alleged tax evasion. The order for his arrest was issued following a report broadcast the previous day on “Good Morning Mr President”–a radio program carried by Radio Miraflores–about apparent irregularities in the bidding for a construction project of a hydroelectric […]

On 3 May 1996, a police squad from Lima’s security forces assaulted a group of striking municipal employees as well as several other people who were in the vicinity. Police also assaulted journalists from the magazine “Caretas”, the daily newspaper “El Comercio” as well as from some television stations who were covering the protest by […]

**Updates IFEX alerts dated 12 April and 12 March 1996, 15 August 1995, and others** On 29 April 1996, journalist Jesus Alfonso Castiglione Mendoza began his fourth year in detention. In March 1996, he received the Hellman-Hammett prize from Human Rights Watch. Recommended Action Send appeals to authorities: pointing out that Castiglione’s detention constitutes a […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 12 March, 22 February 1996; 22 November, 15 August 1995; 13 October, 25 May 1994, and others** In a recent interview broadcast on the radio program “Programas del Peru”, Dr. Carlos Rivera, a lawyer for the Institute for Legal Defence (Instituto de Defensa Legal, IDL), stated that the file (the court […]

The Superintendencia Nacional de Administracion Tributaria (SUNAT)–the government agency responsible for policing taxation and contraband–has ceased advertising in the business-oriented daily “Gestion”. The decision was made in response to articles published by “Gestion” in early March 1996 which were critical of SUNAT and the Peruvian government’s economic adjustment program. Shortly after the articles were published, […]

Carlos Maravi, the editor-in-chief of “La Republica” newspaper, was recently the target of a threatening letter that was sent to him as well as to other media outlets. The threat was made because, according to the letter’s contents, the newspaper had reportedly defended the former President of Peru, Alan Garcia Perez. In particular, the letter […]

Source: National Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP), Chota local **Updates IFEX alert dated 18 July 1995** The Third Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Lambayeque repealed an order issued to detain journalists David Passapera Portilla, Mauro Vasquez Gonzales and Carlos Idrogo Bravo, of Radio Chota and the daily “La Republica”. The Court instead […]