Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Electoral jury imposes disproportionate fine on regional newspaper
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 11 April 2006, the newspaper “Aldía” was fined by the Special Electoral Jury (Jurado Electoral Especial, JEE) of the San Martín region, northeastern Perú, after publishing, on 14 March, the results of a survey about the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections without having been registered in the National Electoral Jury’s (JNE) electoral […]
Newspaper editor sentenced to 18 months in prison for publishing paid advertisement critical of police official
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 11 April 2006, Mireya Zurita, current editor of “El Siglo” newspaper, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for authorizing, in 2003, the publication of a press release which suggested that Deputy Police Inspector Terry Rojas, head of investigations at the Institute for Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations (Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, […]
Television journalist assaulted
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the evening of 12 April 2006, ATV HBO television journalist Máximo Silva Chávez was attacked by two strangers after he took a taxi home. According to Silva, the assailants, who were acting in collusion with the driver, boarded the vehicle and threatened to take him to one of the city’s most isolated […]
Minister asks government directorate to monitor news coverage of recent events and mete out any necessary sanctions
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 April 2006, Minister for Communications and Information William Lara asked the Social Responsibility Directorate, the institution in charge of verifying the observance of the Radio and Television Social Responsibility Law, to thoroughly examine the news coverage by TV channels and radio stations of the murder of three kidnapped children, their driver […]
Journalist forced to leave country due to repeated death threats
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 5 April 2006, Marilu Gambini, a journalist for the programme “Confidencial” broadcast on TV channel 31, left the country with her two young children after having received another death threat on 28 March. The authorities have not yet identified the source of the threat. Gambini has been threatened and beaten several times […]
Police intimidate radio journalists, summoning them over an accusation made by interviewees
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 April 2006, Radio La Salle of Urubamba journalists Dante Sanchez and Carlos Luna were summoned by police to make a statement about an interview broadcast on 9 March. The reporters’ two guests accused the region’s police of extortion and included the city’s chief of police in their accusation. The journalists will […]
Journalist’s documents for murder investigation stolen
(IPYS/IFEX) – In the early morning of 26 March 2006, Canal 10 television channel journalist Eduardo Preve was robbed of several documents related to his ongoing investigation of the murder of chemist Eugenio Berríos, which took place in 1993. People linked to the dictatorial governments which ruled in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay during the 1980s […]
Arrest warrant issued for mayor and former court official accused of journalist’s murder
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 April 2006, the Coronel Portillo Criminal Court in Pucallpa, issued a warrant for the arrest of mayor Luis Valdez Villacorta and former court official Solio Ramírez Garay, alleged intellectual authors of the murder of journalist Alberto Rivera Fernández, which took place in April 2004. Both of the accused are on the […]