Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 12 August 1999, the political and military headquarters of Huancavelica sent out an official letter ordering the media to submit copies of all their news reports to them immediately after being broadcast on the radio. The same order was received by a number of television stations. The letter, dated 11 August, is […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – A motion has been filed appealing the court’s decision to absolve the representative of the Association for the Defense of the Truth (Asociacion Pro defensa de la Verdad, APRODEV), Argentinian Héctor Ricardo Faisal Fracalossi. The appeal was presented by Carlos Caro, a lawyer for the journalists who were offended by the association’s Internet […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 August 1999, an official decree annulling resolution No. 236-99-RE, signed by President Alberto Fujimori and Minister of External Affairs Fernando de Trazegnies, was published in the government newspaper “El Peruano”. The previous resolution had named the individuals appointed to represent the government to the Inter American Human Rights Commission (CIDH) in […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 August 1999, Carlos Manuel Rosas Matos, director of the “Tigre Informa” news programme broadcast on radio “Tigre”, stated that his programme was arbitrarily closed because of his reports on incidences of nepotism in the Fifth Military Region. Rosas noted that before this measure was enforced, the directors of the radio station, […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Judge Arturo Vílchez Requejo of the Twentieth Penal Court in Lima declared inappropriate the charges of harmful defamation against Argentinian Hector Faisal Fracalossi, legal representative of the Association for the Defence of Truth (Asociacion Pro Defensa de la Verdad, Aprodev), filed by four independent journalists critical of Alberto Fujimori ‘s government. **Updates IFEX […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 August and 29 July 1999, new editions of “Repudio”, a publication essentially dedicated to insulting and defaming the owner of the opposition newspaper “La República” and congressional representative Gustavo Mohme Llona, were released. Furthermore, “Repudio” attacked other journalists at the newspaper, particularly investigative journalists Edmundo Cruz and Ángel Páez. **Updates IFEX […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 20 June 1999, César Herrera Luna, the editor of the “El Ashishito” magazine, of the city of Tarapoto, Department of San Martín, in the northeastern Peruvian forests, had an official complaint for defamation and slander filed against him for an article published in the magazine’s forty-third edition. Charges were brought against Herrera […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 July 1999, a number of journalists and news photographers were assaulted by the police, despite the fact that they had identified themselves as press workers. The journalists had been covering a protest march organised by the Bolivian Labour Union (Central Obrera Boliviana, COB) in the city of La Paz. The journalists […]