Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Retrial to begin for journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales
**Updates IFEX CH alerts dated 26 January 1995, 6 September and 26 July 1994** The retrial of journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales will begin on 16 February 1995 at 15:00 hours in the Castro Castro prison in Lima. The trial should last approximately five days. Recommended Action Send appeals to Peruvian authorities: asking that all the […]
Detained journalist Hermes Rivera Guerrero on hunger strike
**Updates IFEX alert dated 16 November 1994** Dilcia de Rivera, the wife of detained journalist Hermes Rivera Guerrero, brought a letter from the journalist to the offices of IPYS. In it, Rivera indicates that he embarked on a hunger strike on 26 January, sewing his mouth closed with thread. His wife indicated to IPYS that […]
Verdict overturned in the case of journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales; date for retrial imminent
Last week, the Supreme Court overturned the decision of an anonymous tribunal which had sentenced journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales to twenty years in jail. A retrial is set to happen. According to the Peruvian human rights organization APRODEH, whose lawyers are defending Valdez, news of the date of the retrial should come at the beginning […]
Canal 11 RBC television signal interrupted for four days
Television channel Canal 11 RBC’s signal was interrupted on 4 January 1995 and the station was forced off the air for four days. On 4 January, during an interview with General Luis Cisneros Visquerra on the show “Women Have the Say” in which he made remarks against the government, the channel went off the air […]