Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Police officer assaults journalist
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 29 November 2004, journalist Juan Segundo Espinoza Linares was assaulted by municipal police officer Humberto Venegas Liñán. At the time of the incident, Espinoza was at Santa municipality’s public works office where he had gone to interview the assistant manager of infrastructure, Roberto Briceño Franco. The city of Santa is located in […]
Journalist flees his home after receiving repeated death threats
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 25 November 2004, after receiving repeated death threats, journalist Renán Palacios was forced to flee his home in the city of Ica and go into hiding with his wife in the capital, Lima. IPYS helped to coordinate Palacios’s move to Lima. The threats have been sent via text messages to Palacios’s mobile […]
Cameraman injured during demonstration
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the afternoon of 24 November 2004, a tear gas canister fired by a police officer hit cameraman Edwin Ocros Poma, of Channel 7’s Huaraz affiliate, while he was covering a demonstration organised by a local trade union federation. The incident took place in Huaraz, capital of Áncash region, northwestern Peru. At the […]
Journalist receives death threats
(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalist Renán Palacios has received six death threats via text messages sent to his mobile phone. The first two threats were sent on 20 November 2004. Palacios received the other threats on 22 November while he was filing a complaint with the police’s Criminal Investigations Division in the city of Ica, southwestern Peru. […]
Journalists assaulted by transport workers
(IPYS/IFEX) – A group of transport workers who were demonstrating against rising fuel costs assaulted journalist Teodoro Feliciano Quispe, director of the “Sin Límites” programme broadcast on Canal A television station, and Canal A reporter Ana María Tintaya. When the protesters realised that the demonstration was being filmed, they assaulted the journalists and robbed them […]
Radio journalist goes into hiding for fear of being kidnapped
(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalist Luis Lingán Ramírez has been in hiding since 12 November 2004. The journalist believes he was being followed and fears that he could be kidnapped by members of a local civilian patrol in the city of Santa Cruz, Cajamarca region, northern Peru. Lingán told IPYS that he is being targeted because of […]
Journalist faces charges for allegedly defaming the National Armed Forces
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 11 November 2004, the military’s prosecutor general, Eladio Aponte, notified journalist Manuel Isidro Molina, of the weekly “La Razón”, that a complaint has been launched against him for allegedly defaming the National Armed Forces (Fuerza Armada Nacional). The complaint was launched after the journalist published a 7 November article alleging that retired […]
Congressman insults and attempts to assault journalists
(IPYS/IFEX) – Eittel Ramos, a congressman for the ruling Perú Posible political party, insulted and tried to assault several journalists as he was leaving a party meeting in Lima on the evening of 13 November 2004. The journalists were trying to obtain information about the meeting when Ramos became angry and began to insult them. […]