Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Journalists under surveillance by intelligence agents
(IPYS/IFEX) – A group of Peruvian journalists has reported that they have been kept under surveillance by officials of Peru’s anti-terrorism units – the national counter-terrorism directorate (Dirección Nacional Contra el Terrorismo, DINCOTE) and the terrorism directorate (Dirección de Terrorismo, DITER) – as well as special agents of the Huallaga police department, since 12 November […]
Journalist critical of ex-president Fujimori may face prison for “plagiarizing” his own novel
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 November 2006, Lima’s Sixth Criminal Court summoned journalist and writer Nicolás Yerovi to the reading of the verdict and possibly a sentence in a suit filed against him for allegedly plagiarizing a novel that he himself wrote. The suit was filed in 1999. According to Yerovi, the charge was laid in […]
Paramilitary hold meeting in Santa Marta to plan journalist’s assassination
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 27 November 2006, journalist José Ponce Obispo, producer of the news programme of Radio Galeón, accused a paramilitary group of planning to murder him. Ponce was alerted to the plan by a trustworthy source who warned him that a meeting to plan the crime had already taken place on 25 November in […]
Paramilitary’s resurgence threatening free expression, international community demands action from authorities
(FLIP/IFEX) – The following is a 30 November 2006 joint action by FLIP and IPYS, supported by other IFEX members and other organisations, as well as individual journalists: President Álvaro Uribe Vélez President of the Republic Palacio de Nariño Carrera 8 No. 7-26 Bogotá, Colombia We, the undersigned journalists, media outlets and national and international […]
Unidentified individual threatens editor over photograph published in newspaper
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 November 2006, the chief editor of the newspaper “El Impulso”, José Ángel Ocanto, was threatened with death by a man who identified himself as a member of the armed forces and the father of a child whose photograph had been published by the paper earlier that day. The assailant arrived at […]
Soldiers assault cameraman from repeatedly-harassed Globovisión television station, prevent crew from covering protest
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 23 November 2006, a Globovisión television crew was harassed, and one of its members physically assaulted, by security personnel at the government’s Casa Militar when they were covering a protest march which took place in front of its headquarters in Caracas. The members of the crew were Beatriz Adrián, Edwin Moreno and […]
Photojournalists assaulted by police while covering women’s march in Lima
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 24 November 2006, members of Perú’s National Police assaulted freelance photojournalist Walter Upiú and Agence France Press news agency photojournalist Eitam Abramovich when they were covering the march of a group of women who were celebrating No Violence against Women Day in Lima’s main square. The police assaulted the reporters in order […]
Prosecutor accuses journalist of illegal possession of court ruling
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 November 2006, journalist Freddy Machado, a correspondent for Globovisión television station in the State of Táchira, in western Venezuela, was accused of illegal possession of a government document. The accusation was filed by the region’s criminal prosecutor, Juan de Jesús Gutiérrez, after Machado received a copy of the ruling that allows […]