Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Journalist receives death threats and is being sued for having denounced a congressman
(IPYS/IFEX) Miguel Ángel Moscoso Moscoso, former press assistant to the Human Rights and Pacification Congress Commission, informed IPYS that he has been receiving numerous telephone calls warning him to withdraw the denouncement he made against the Commission’s president, congressman Anselmo Revilla Jurado. Moscoso denounced in October 1998, that the congressman had been unlawfully appropriating funds […]
Journalist’s radio programme pulled off the air in Ica
(IPYS/IFEX) – According to IPYS, Carlos Caldas Pozo, a journalist and host of the programme “La Alternativa”, (broadcast by Radio Exito FM from Monday to Friday between 2:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m., local time), had his radio program abruptly shut down on 9 January 1999. During the airing of a news item about a labourer […]
Journalist attacked; assailants set free
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 27 January 1999, at approximately 3:00 p.m. (local time), journalist Victor Raúl Arroyo Huamán was attacked by three individuals who beat and kicked him, causing serious head and body injuries. Arroyo Huaman, who hosts the news program “La Razon” (“Reason”) on Radio Exito, was attacked as he returned by taxi to his […]
Journalist from Yurimaguas freed
(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalist Johny Pezo was freed at 12:15 p.m. (local time) on 18 January 1999. Pezo’s release was ordered by the Superior Court of Lambayeque, which decided to suspend the journalist’s trial for defending terrorism (“apologia del terrorismo”). The charges against Pezo had kept him in prison in Yurimaguas (in the Amazonian province of […]
New attacks against freedom of expression in Peru
(IPYS/IFEX) – A draft law which proposes to regulate the seizure, interception and supervision of communications and telecommunications, as well as to force journalists to reveal their sources, has been put forward by Congress’ Defense Committee, which is presided over by member of Congress Martha Chávez. According to IPYS, this initiative has been shown to […]
Public prosecutor and judge in Yurimaguas find journalist Pezo not criminally responsible
(IPYS/IFEX) – According to IPYS, Johnny Pezo Tello, who hosted the radio programme “Tropicales de Doble A y El Masaterillo” on Radio Doble A in Yurimaguas (in the Amazonian province of Alto Amazonas, district of Loreto), has been held in seclusion since 21 November 1998 in the city prison on charges of defending terrorism (“apologia […]
Update on the investigation into the case of journalist Tito Pilco Mori
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 28 August 1997 at 5:00 a.m. (local time), journalist Tito Pilco Mori was found injured. He was alive but unable to communicate. Six days later, without having recovered and without having named his attackers, the journalist died (see IFEX alerts). The political authority and the prosecutor’s report stated that Pilco Mori had […]
Judge accuses nineteen journalists
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 November 1998, journalist Johny Eduardo Pezo Tello was detained in Yurimaguas (in northern Peru, near the Amazon region) and accused of “defending terrorism” (apología de terrorismo). According to IPYS, Pezo, under threat of death, had been forced by the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, MRTA) to read a […]