Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – Chief Prosecutor Arquimedes Pesantes asked the Tax and Customs Court to sentence former Frecuencia Latina/Canal 2 television station owner Baruch Ivcher to 12 years in jail for customs fraud, tax evasion and falsifying documents. The trial, which was to start on 14 September, is part of a campaign of government harassment against Ivcher […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Tax court judge Nicolas Trujillo Lopez has finished an investigation and concluded that Baruch Ivcher and eight other associates in the mattress company Productos Paraíso del Perú S.A. are responsible for allegedly defrauding the state out of customs duties. Hilda Valladares, the provincial public prosecutor in charge of the case also reached the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – In the eastern Peruvian city of Tingo María, journalist Ricardo Guerrero Febres, who collaborates with the local radio station Radio Aleluya and with the local affiliate of the Global TV-Channel 13 television network, was unexpectedly detained and accused of being a terrorist. The incident occurred at the local electoral office (the Oficina Descentralizada […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – After serving one third of his five-year sentence and having benefitted from the “two-for-one” terms under which a prisoner is given one day of freedom for every two days worked in jail, on 27 August 1998 radio station owner Ricardo Palma Michelsen was ordered freed. Judge Nicolas Trujillo Lopez ordered the release. Palma, […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – For several days, José Olaya, editor-in-chief of the Lima daily “El Tio”, has been receiving death threats through anonymous telephone calls in which the caller shouts, “this time they won’t miss.” The last threatening calls he received (as of 25 August) were placed on 22 August between 10 and 10:15 a.m. (local time) […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 August 1998, public prosecutor José Ochoa Lamas began a criminal investigation against journalist César Hildebrandt Perez Trevino, prompted by the complaint filed against the journalist by Santiago Sanguinetti. According to IPYS, Sanguinetti is an unusual figure who has filed several similar legal cases. The complaint is based on the broadcast of […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 19 August 1998, legislators from various opposition parties warned of an impending threat to freedom of expression and press freedom, reporting that a group of majority/government party Congress members were proposing that a committee be formed to investigate the alleged breach which occurred after the last closed session of Congress. In the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – The National Tax Supervision Administration (Sunat) abstained from intervening in the trial of Baruch Ivcher Bronstein for alleged tax evasion because the accusation against him was made without a prior administrative investigation as called for by Peruvian law. Sunat made its decision known to the judge in charge of tax and customs offences, […]