Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

According to the report, the aggressions reached their climax towards the middle of the year, sometimes a bit before or a bit later, due to specific situations such as general elections in Peru or the lawsuit for millions of dollars against the newspaper “El Universo” in Ecuador.

After he published the interview, Carlos Infante said that the former defense minister accused him of belonging to Sendero Luminoso (a terrorist group) and using his position as a journalist to act as a sounding board for terrorism.

The suits have been moved by civil servants in the Senate who were exposed by Congresso em Foco as having received wages higher than the ceiling for their positions.

Carlos Monja Timaná, presenter of the Radio Limón program “El Investigador”, was attacked by two individuals, one of whom allegedly works for the Olmos district municipality.

The journalists told IPYS that after they published the reports, mass circulation emails were sent in which their reputations were damaged and they were accused of belonging to the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso.

IPYS condemns the harassment suffered by these journalists and demands that the authorities identify and sanction whoever is responsible for the threats against the ATV+ investigations team.

Moisés Campos received the threat after reporting on the alleged embezzlement of funds by Mayor Corina De la Cruz’s administration.

The court decided that the convicting sentence had irremediable deficiencies caused by the lack of coherent and congruent arguments.