Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Regional newspaper team assaulted while covering demonstration by municipal employees
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 March 2006, journalist Marsha Lee González and photographer Trina Marichales, both of the newspaper “El Luchador”, were assaulted by alleged supporters of Lenín Figueroa, mayor of the municipality of Heres, state of Bolivar, in southern Venezuela, while they were covering a demonstration by municipal employees. González told IPYS that a man […]
Media crew assaulted during student demonstration in Pereira
(FLIP/IFEX) – Journalist Diana Vega and cameraman Jorge Sandoval, both of Canal Caracol television in Pereira, the capital of Risaralda department, were assaulted and threatened by students of Pereira Technical University, during a demonstration on campus. The incident took place in the University’s courtyard at about noon (local time) on 23 March 2006. To cover […]
Journalist assaulted during presidential candidate’s meeting
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 20 March 2006, journalist Andy Ortiz of Canal N television was assaulted when reporting on a meeting of presidential candidate Ollanta Humala and Congress candidates for the Partido Nacionalista Peruano – Unión por el Perú (Peruvian Nationalist Party – Union for Peru) party, in the district of Cercado de Lima. Ortiz went […]
Taumalipas government official threatens webpage editor
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 March 2006, the editor-in-chief of the webpage En Línea Directa (http://www.enlineadirecta.info), Arturo Solís, received a telephoned threat from the press officer of the Tamaulipas State Public Prosecutor’s Office, Raúl Ramírez. The threat stemmed from a 16 March column in which Solís asked the state governor, Eugenio Hernández Flores, to replace Prosecutor […]
Army detains journalists, suspends broadcasts by radio station
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 March 2006, members of the Ecuadorian army shut down the Inti Pacha community-based radio station in the town of Cayambe, 60 kilometers north of Quito. The move followed the 21 March declaration of a national state of emergency. The soldiers also detained two of the station’s journalists, William Ramos and Julio […]
Journalist threatened in Huaraz
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 20 March 2006, Hugo Gonzáles Henostroza, a journalist for the newspaper “Expresión”, received a death threat via an anonymous letter sent to his office. In it he is ordered to stop publishing articles about congresswoman Maruja Alfaro or face the consequences. The incident took place in Huaraz, the capital of Ancash region […]
Radio journalist receives new death threat
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 18 March 2006, Radio Órbita journalist Rory Huaney Rodríguez was assaulted and threatened with death once more by Jean Carlo León Martínez, son of Amaro León León, the former mayor of the province of Yungay. León León was convicted on 14 December 2005 for the February 2004 murder of journalist Antonio De […]
Journalist under house arrest for defamation
(IPYS/IFEX) – Ibeyise Pacheco, journalist and columnist for the newspaper “El Nacional”, has been under house arrest since 15 March 2006 after the 11th Tribunal denied her plea for a suspended sentence. She was sentenced, in May 2004, to nine months in prison for defaming Colonel Angel Bellorin. The journalist was denied probation because a […]