(IPYS/IFEX) – On 16 October 2006, a group of reporters were assaulted by Urarinas district mayor Juan Salas Inuma’s security guards, at the end of a hearing at the Superior Court of Loreto, where the mayor is on trial for alleged embezzlement. The journalists attempted to ask the mayor some questions about the trial, but […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 16 October 2006, a group of reporters were assaulted by Urarinas district mayor Juan Salas Inuma’s security guards, at the end of a hearing at the Superior Court of Loreto, where the mayor is on trial for alleged embezzlement.
The journalists attempted to ask the mayor some questions about the trial, but his security guards stopped them from doing so. When the reporters insisted, the guards beat them. The event took place in Loreto, in northeastern Peru.
Two of the journalists who were assaulted were Mayra Azang, Red Global television station’s correspondent in Iquitos, and Luis Chanamé Orbe, of Radio Arpegio radio station.
