Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 9 November 2006, a plenary session of the Peruvian Congress decided to postpone, due to lack of consensus, the second vote on the law that modifies the powers of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (Agencia Peruana de Cooperación Internacional, APCI) by granting it control over funds received by NGOs, including those […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 20 October 2006, the signal of television station TV Convenção in the town of Itu, in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil, was cut. According to the station’s director, Rosângela Soares Sena, the town’s municipal police force cut all broadcasts on orders from the town’s mayor, Herculaneo Júnior. Sena stated that the mayor’s […]

(WPFC/IFEX) – The following is a 9 November 2006 WPFC letter to Peruvian President García: His Excellency Dr. Alan García Pérez President of the Republic Presidential Office Plaza Mayor s/n Cercado de Lima Peru Your Excellency: On behalf of the World Press Freedom Committee ( http://www.wpfc.org ) – an organization that represents 45 press freedom […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 7 November 2006, journalist Javier Poma Sotelo, producer and host of the news programme “ATV Noticias Regional”, was threatened by a woman who burst onto the set while the program was on air. The assailant demanded that Poma Sotelo stop criticizing Alberto Espinoza Cerrón, a candidate for the district of Independencia in […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 19 October 2006, Military Police Captain Luís Carlos Ferreira threatened to kill “Dois Pontos” newspaper journalist Roberto Pazzianotto, in a bar in the town of Capivari, São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. According to the journalist, the threat was made in relation to articles of his published a few months prior about the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 31 October 2006, Fausto Brites, the editor of “Correio do Estado” newspaper, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 months in prison and fined approximately US$875 for defamation. The sentence was meted out by Judge Cíntia Xavier Latteriello of the Fourth Criminal Court in Matto Grosso do Sul, a state in western […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 November 2006, Roberto de Lima, a reporter with Red Globo television network’s local affiliated station TV Tem, was assaulted by Walter José Tardelli, attorney to Màrio Sérgio do Lago Ramos Neto, a professional wrestler. The reporter was recording Neto leaving the police station of the town of Piedade, where he had […]

(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 […]