Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalist Marco Antonio Cossío Vega, director of the “La Voz del Pueblo” programme, broadcast on Radio Mix in Paramonga (Barranca province, north of Lima), had his leg broken in an attack, requiring surgery and the insertion of six pins. At about 1:30 a.m. on 27 June 1999, Cossío was held up by six […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 June 1999, lawyer Alberto Borea sought a writ of hábeas corpus from the Constitutional Court. The request was made on behalf of Baruch Ivcher, owner of the “Productos Paraíso” company, and Rosario Lam, former employee of the company and currently detained on allegations of tax fraud. **Updates IFEX alerts of 2 […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Public prosecutor Oscar Zevallos Palomino, before leaving the Public Prosecutor’s ad hoc office dealing with prevention and suppression of piracy and offences against intellectual property, shelved charges against Arturo Cáceres A. for the publication of the satirical newspaper “Repúdica”, which defamed the editor and journalists of the newspaper “La República”. **Updates IFEX alerts […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 26 June 1999, Julio Sotelo Casanova, former general manager of Frecuencia Latina, was moved by emergency transfer from San Jorge prison to a local clinic. The transfer was arranged after Sotelo showed signs of pneumonia and had severe difficulty breathing. Sotelo is currently under observation in the intensive care unit. His family […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Mario Amoretti, journalist Miguel Ángel Moscoso Moscoso’s lawyer, who has received a one year conditional prison sentence by the Fifth Lima Criminal Court for defamation, asked the Lima Supreme Court to declare the sentence null and void because of defects in the process. Amoretti notes that the judge who first heard the case […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Hugo Meza Layza, a journalist in Coishco, near the city of Chimbote, (district of Ancash, in northern Peru), has informed IPYS that he has been the victim of harassment and threats made by Captain Wilmer Vásquez Delgado of the Peruvian National Police. Meza has been compiling a report dealing with an alleged connection […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – A group of journalists, led by member of Congress Anel Townsend and made up of Fernando Viaña, Luis Iberico, Iván García, Monica Vecco, Rosana Cueva, Enrique Zileri, César Hildebrandt, among others, brought a complaint before the Ombudsman regarding the detention of Julio Sotelo Casanova, Baruch Ivcher’s counsel and the former manager of Frecuencia […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Police have confirmed that journalist Felix Haro Rodriguez’s death was provoked by a family matter. After the information about the murder of the journalist was released, it had been thought that he had been killed by terrorists or drug traffickers in Aucayucu, in the district of Huanuco. **Updates IFEX alerts of 9 June […]