Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
United States representatives Jesse Helms and Benjamin A. Gilman send letter to President Fujimori
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 9 October 1998, United States (US) Senator Jesse Helms and Congressman Benjamin A. Gilman sent their second letter to President Alberto Fujimori concerning the political persecution of businessman Baruch Ivcher, who the government stripped of his citizenship on 13 July 1997 and of his ownership of the Frecuencia Latina/Channel 2 order to […]
IPYS launches Emergency Network for Journalists
(IPYS/IFEX) – Next week, IPYS is launching its Emergency Network for Journalists. The Network will be declared open by Santiago Canton, the Organisation of American States (OAS) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, on 11 November 1998 at 12:30 p.m., Bolognesi 660, Barranco, Lima, Perú. WHAT IS THE NETWORK? The Network is Latin America’s most […]
“Fifth of April Commando” threatens “La República” editor-in-chief
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the evening of 2 November 1998, Gustavo Mohme Llona, editor-in chief of “La República” and opposition Congressman, was threatened over the phone by a man calling himself the “Fifth of April Commando” (“Comando 5 de abril”). “La República” reported on 4 November that the threats were aimed at stopping Mohme from publishing […]
Highest court confirms sentence in tax evasion trial against Ivcher
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 2 November 1998, on appeal, the Supreme Court in the Tax and Customs Court system confirmed a lower court verdict which had been recently handed down against former Frecuencia Latina/Channel 2 television station owner Baruch Ivcher Bronstein and nine of his associates in the Productos Paraíso del Perú mattress company. The ten […]
Forced boycott of “La República” and other papers
(IPYS/IFEX)- On 27 October 1998, IPYS reported that on 24 October leaders of the National Federation of Newpaper, Magazine and Lottery Sellers (the Federacion Nacional de Vendedores de Diarios, Revistas y Loterías del Perú, FENDENVRELP) threatened and coerced Lima’s young newspaper hawkers into not selling the dailies “La República”, “El Popular” and “Libero”. All three […]
Chiclayo newspaper journalists assaulted
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 October 1998 in Chiclayo, a province in Lambayeque (a department in northern Peru,) some merchants in the Aguas Verdes shopping centre verbally and physically assaulted two journalists with the Chiclayo-based daily “La Industria”. After giving the journalists a brutal beating, the merchants destroyed a camera and took rolls of film from […]
Concern over cancellation of tv programmes
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 9 October 1998, Julio Vera, owner of the Channel 9 television network, told Cecilia Valenzuela, host of the Channel 9 weekly television programme Sin Censura (Without Censorship,) that her last show would air on Sunday 1 November. On 12 October, Luis Ibérico, the director of the programme, was told his contract with […]
Threat Journalist Cecilia Valenzuela threatened
(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalist Cecilia Valenzuela told IPYS that, around noon on 26 October 1998, she received an envelope at home which had Peruvian Congress letterhead on the outside. IPYS was shown the envelope. It contained a blank piece of paper on which the message “You are going to die, bitch” was spelled out in letters […]