Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

The incident took place after Miguel Meza Nieto published a series of reports about Raúl Barreto Topalaya, the Peruvian National Party’s coordinator in Junín.

IPYS says the ruling goes against the right of reply and freedom of expression.

Feliciano Gutiérrez Suca was shot in the left leg, presumably in an effort to silence his reporting about corruption among police officers in the Puno region.

A group of protesters who oppose the Conga mining project attacked journalist Edwin Alzamora Vásquez, an employee of the mining project’s communications department.

Mayra Azan and Henry Sánchez were assaulted by Andrés Salas Del Águila because they videotaped him using government property for an event organised by his relatives.

Prior to the UN summit of world leaders in Rio in June 2012 (Rio+20) to discuss the environment and sustainable development goals, 77 civil society organisations recommend the adoption of national laws on access to information, public participation and access to justice in the environment, a new UN convention on access to environmental information, and a UN Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Lucía Escobar says she was threatened after publishing an article about the forced disappearance of a person in the town of Panajachel, in western Guatemala.

A division of the Supreme Court of Lima acquitted the journalist of the defamation charges for which he had been sentenced to 18 months in prison.