Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
PAT TV, Megavisión, Sittel television stations’ journalists assaulted, Bolivia Unida station attacked during Santa Cruz autonomy referendum
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 May 2008, during a referendum vote held on a proposed autonomy statute for Santa Cruz department, several journalists were assualted in the department’s capital, the city of Santa Cruz, and other nearby locations. In the city of Santa Cruz, radio journalist Marítima Maritza Roca was hit in the face by a […]
One reporter wounded, two others also assaulted while covering arrest of alleged rapist
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 May 2008, América Televisión camera operator Fabricio Béjar Silva suffered a four centimeter-long cut in his left forearm inflicted by a man wielding a broken glass bottle. The assailant attacked the journalist in reprisal for covering the arrest of the alleged rapist of an English tourist. The event took place when […]
ARTICLE 19, CENCOS and IPYS condemn federal police assaults on four journalists in Culiacán
(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IPYS/IFEX) – The following is a 7 May 2008 joint press release of ARTICLE 19, CENCOS and IPYS: Mexico City, 7 May 2008 – On 6 May 2008, four reporters from “El Debate” newspaper, based in Sinaloa state, were assaulted and threatened with murder by Federal Preventive Police (Policía Federal Preventiva, PFP) officers as […]
Journalist facing “resisting authority” charges for not turning original of videotape over to prosecutor
(IPYS/IFEX) – Judge Carlos Mendoza Banda, of Arequipa’s Tenth Bench of the Criminal Court, southeastern Peru, has initiated proceedings against journalist Jymmy Salinas Salas, correspondent for America Televisón, for the crime of violence and resisting authority through disobedience. The complaint against the journalist began when he refused to hand over to prosecutor Frank Rosas Gainsa […]
Journalists mistreated in three different incidents in Caracas and Barquisimeto
(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalists in Caracas and Barquisimeto were mistreated in three separate recent incidents. On 23 April 2008, a Caracas municipal police officer fired buckshot against the pavement to stop Ávila TV television station journalist Oswaldo Rivero from covering the eviction of a group of tenants from a building in the Chacao neighbourhood, which had […]
Critical community radio station in Mérida suspects government sabotage behind transmitter damage
(IPYS/IFEX) – Since 22 April 2008, the community-based radio station Ecos 93.3 FM has not been able to broadcast due to damage to its transmitter. Station staff believe that the electricity outage that caused the damage to the transmitter was deliberate and in reprisal for the station’s criticisms of the municipal council and administration of […]
Journalist goes into hiding after being followed and suffering an attempted kidnapping for denouncing alleged corruption by authorities
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 28 April 2008, journalist Paul Garay, director of the weekly magazine “El Pueblo”, told IPYS that he had been kept under surveillance during the entire month of April and had been the target of a kidnapping attempt. The journalist went into hiding for security reasons on 25 April. The events took place […]
Government-ordered investigation of NGO over public comments threatens free expression, says IPYS
(IPYS/IFEX) – The following is a 29 April 2008 IPYS declaration: IPYS DECLARATION ON APCI AND THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION OF APRODEH IPYS condemns the government’s attempt to use the Peruvian International Cooperation Agency (Agencia Peruana de Cooperación Internacional, APCI) for political ends, by having it open a special investigation into the Pro-Human Rights Association […]