Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 19 September 2003, Nilo Jiménez, a photojournalist for “El Tiempo” daily, in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui state, northeastern Venezuela, was insulted and threatened by three individuals. Shortly after 10:00 p.m. (local time) on 19 September, Jiménez received a call on his mobile phone during which he was told that a youth had […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 September 2003, columnist Rodrigo Fierro Benítez, of the Quito-based daily “El Comercio”, filed an appeal of the sentence handed down to him by the first instance court for allegedly insulting former president León Febres Cordero. The sentence of six months in prison and payment of US$1,000 to the plaintiff’s lawyer has […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Two journalists from Canal N television station were recently attacked by a National Police (Policía Nacional del Perú, PNP) officer in the city of La Oroya, Yauli province, in the Junín central mountain region of Peru. Camera operator Renato Fernández, who was accompanying reporter Andy Ortiz, was physically assaulted. The incident occurred on […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 September 2003, at approximately 2:30 p.m. (local time) in the Villa Huayna Potosí area of the city of El Alto, La Paz department, a journalist, two photographers and a driver for “La Razón” newspaper were attacked by a mob of local residents. An article published in “La Razón” on 16 September […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 September 2003, journalist Marco Antonio Apaza Carpio was subjected to defamatory comments when he opened his television programme to telephone calls regarding alleged irregularities at San Agustín National University (Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, UNSA), in the city of Arequipa, capital of Arequipa region, in the southern part of the country. […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalists, camera operators and photographers have recently been threatened, insulted and pushed around by President Hugo Chávez’s supporters and by a leader of the governing party, the Movimiento Quinta República (MVR), while covering activities at the National Elections Council (Consejo Nacional Electoral, CNE) headquarters. According to journalist Valentina Lares, of “Tal Cual” daily, […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Two journalists from the “La ventana indiscreta” programme, aired on Frecuencia Latina – Canal 2 television station on Sundays, were recently detained for nearly three hours on the orders of a district attorney. The journalists were detained after filming the birthday celebrations of the attorney general, Nelly Calderón Navarro, in a public place. […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 18 August 2003, a recording of a telephone conversation between President Alejandro Toledo and one of his advisors was broadcast on journalist César Hildebrandt’s programme “En la Boca del Lobo”. The television programme airs at 11:00 p.m. (local time), from Monday to Friday, on the Frecuencia Latina, Channel 2 station. On the […]