Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – The director of the “Referéndum” daily, Fernando Viaña Villa, and the daily’s editor-in-chief, Luis Iberico Núñez, are facing charges for having insulted and defamed another party in their journalistic reports. The case brought against them by José Gabriel Somocurcio Vílchez was authorised to proceed by Judge Carmen Escalante Salazar, who presides over the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – The Radio Señorial news director, Ricardo Bullon, who was recently suspended, denounced the fact that he has been receiving death threats over the telephone. **Updates IFEX alert of 23 August 1999** The journalist, who manages the radio programme “Testigo de la Noticia”, in the city of Huancayo, informed IPYS that, on 25 August […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Eduardo Cenepo Eljarratt, editor of the weekly magazine “El Clarín”, of the Amazonian city of Pucallpa, was officially summoned by Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Martínez Fernández, regional military chief, to “clarify and substantiate” information published in the magazine on 19 August 1999. The official letter Cenepo received from Martínez refers to an interview held […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 23 August 1999, journalist Rubén Trujillo, press coordinator for channel 9 ATV, announced on his television programme that he had received numerous anonymous death threats over the telephone and suggestions that the viceminister of the Presidency, Freddy Moreno, was the intellectual author of the calls. Trujillo stated that he received thirty-eight threatening […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalist César Hildebrandt Pérez Treviño is no longer facing charges for treason, violation of state secrets and espionage. On 19 August 1999, Attorney José Ochoa Lamas shelved the case after he failed to prove that the journalist had distributed confidential information regarding the deployment of Ecuatorian troops on Peruvian territory. This topic was […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – The Taxation and Customs Offences Court (SEDTA) rejected a motion filed by Baruch Ivcher’s counsel, Julio Sotelo Casanova, to have a four year suspended prison sentence against Sotelo be declared null and void. The SEDTA judges decided that the appeal for annulment would not be examined any further and that the case should […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Ricardo Bullon Matos, the Radio Señorial news director, in the city of Huancayo, department of Junín, was sentenced for defamation and insult and was prohibited from carrying out any journalistic work for two years. Bullon had reported on an auditor’s report revealing irregularities in Janina Soria de Véliz’s management. Soria is the president […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Helí Flores Lazo, the editor of the “Ahora” newspaper in the Amazonian city of Tarapoto, was charged with defamation for having reported on criminal charges against Ezaquel Esquivel Corpus in a manner which Esquivel thought was inaccurate and denigrating. Flores will be required to pay S/. 2000 (approximately US$600) in civil damages, and […]