Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Crime journalist’s car torched
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 20 December 2006, unidentified individuals set fire to a car belonging to journalist Eduardo Manrique, head of the the crime section of the daily newspaper “Diario de Cuyo”, based in the city of Cuyo in San Juan province in western Argentina. The vehicle was parked in the garage of Manrique’s home. The […]
Radio journalist free on conditional release while investigation of violent protest is being completed
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 14 December 2006, journalist Juan José Ramírez Villacorta was granted a conditional release after having been imprisoned for 21 days in Huaraz, Ancash region, northwestern Peru. Ramírez works for Radio Cushin radio station and is also a correspondent for Radio Ancash station. The decision was made by the same judge who ordered […]
Court closes proceedings on journalist’s disappearance, allegedly at the hands of Navy officers
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 12 December 2006, Lima’s Second Supraprovincial Criminal Court decided to close the case of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca, a correspondent for the newspaper “La República”, who disappeared in 1984 in the city of Huanta, Ayacucho, in central Peru. Officers of Peru’s Navy (Marina de Guerra) who had been deployed to the region […]
Argentine and Spanish journalists assaulted by Pinochet supporters; President Bachelet condemns late dictator’s supporters’ attacks on press
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the evening of 11 December 2006, a group of former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s supporters insulted and threw objects at Televisión Española’s team of journalists, led by reporter María José Ramundo, while they covered the general’s funeral at the Military School in Santiago de Chile. One of the supporters hit Ramundo in the […]
Nine journalists assaulted in San Julián during confrontations over Santa Cruz secession proposal; two “La Razón” reporters beaten in Cochabamba
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 December 2006, several reporters were assaulted by local residents in the town of San Julián, in Santa Cruz region in eastern Peru, while they were covering a confrontation between supporters and critics of the Santa Cruz regional government over the public consultation meeting held by the government to propose Santa Cruz’s […]
Assaults on journalists critical of Santa Cruz department’s secessionist movement continue
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the night of 12 December 2006, a group of demonstrators supporting the independence of the Department of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia assaulted several of the region’s journalists for being critical of the department’s emancipation attempt. Julio Peñaloza, of the Catholic Church’s radio station Radio ERBOL, narrowly avoided being assaulted in the […]
Government supporters assault Globovision television station journalists
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 December 2006, journalist Heyra Zerpa and cameraman Carlos Idogro, both from the private television company Globovisión, were assaulted by a group of government supporters who were trying to stop the reporters from covering the closing of the presidential election polls in an area in Bolívar state, southern Venezuela. Zerpa told IPYS […]
Another death threat against journalist following reopening of drug trafficking case she had investigated
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 14 December 2006, journalist Marilú Gambini received a death threat on her cell phone. The journalist has remained in hiding since April after having been threatened and assaulted several times, beginning in 2005, because of her investigations on drug trafficking and corruption in the city of Chimbote in northwestern Peru. The authorities […]