Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
“Últimas Noticias” news crew detained and threatened in Caracas
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 29 June 2005, a group of unidentified men surrounded, threatened and held captive journalist Mabel Sarmiento and photographer Cirilo Hernández, of the daily “Últimas Noticias”. The news crew had been taking some photographs in the Andrés Eloy Blanco square, located beside the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Presidential Palace in Caracas. The […]
Journalist fined for “moral damages”
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 24 June 2005, the Justice Department in Pará State, northern Brazil, ordered journalist Lúcio Flávio Pinto to pay a US$3,300 fine to Cecílio do Rego Almeida for “moral damages”. The reporter had accused the businessman of real state fraud in 2000. In 2002, Almeida was mentioned in a government report on people […]
Angry crowd attacks “Diario de la Costa” staff
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 25 June 2005, approximately eighty people burst into the offices of the daily “Diario La Costa” in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo State, attacking the paper’s staff over an article published that day. The article reported on a man who had died while trying to steal wire from electrical lines, according to information provided […]
Photographer assaulted in Caracas
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 29 June 2005, Juan Carlos Neida, a photographer for the daily “El Nuevo País”, was assaulted and held by four men presumed to be members of the Military Intelligence Directorate (Dirección de Inteligencia Militar, DIM), after he took photos in the Caracas neighbourhood of Las Mercedes. Neida told IPYS that he was […]
High Court agrees to hear case against journalist
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 June 2005, Brazil’s High Court agreed to hear a case against journalist Cláudio Júlio Tognolli and Regional Attorney Luiz Francisco Fernandes de Souza for allegedly offending and slandering Senator Jorge Bornhausen in a 2003 story published on the “Consultor Jurídico” website. The story, entitled, “Eye of the Hurricane: Public Prosecutor’s Office […]
Villagers assault journalists during protest against mining company
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 16 June 2005, four journalists were assaulted in the Cajamarca region, northern Peru, by a group of villagers from the town of San Cirilo as they attempted to cover a meeting held during a protest against the mining company Yanacocha, organised by the Front for the Defense of the Environment and Cajamarca’s […]
Loreto Patriotic Front members assault reporter and camera operator in Iquitos
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 8 June 2005, reporter Silvana Moz Mendoza and camera operator Raul Tarrillo, of Amazonica Television Channel 2 station, were assaulted by demonstrators belonging to the Loreto Patriotic Front (Frente Patriótico de Loreto) while covering the group’s 48-hour strike in Iquitos, Loreto region, northeastern Peru. Moz told IPYS that she and the camera […]
Independent newspaper editor’s house set on fire in Tocantins State
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 May 2005, unidentified persons set fire to journalist Sandra Miranda’s house in Palmas, capital of Tocantins State. Miranda edits the independent newspaper “Primeira Página” and has been working as a journalist for 22 years. According to the police, it is clear the fire was set deliberately. Only a back room was […]