Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Radio journalist assaulted by skinheads following broadcasts on social diversity
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 16 September 2007, a group of women assaulted journalist Cora Cadena, the hostess of the programme “Transgresor Jatarishun” on Radio Luna, a station based in Quito, capital city of Ecuador. The assailants belong to the neo-Nazi group “cabezas rapadas” (“shaved heads”), which opposes social and ethnical diversity, issues regularly discussed on Cadena’s […]
President calls for more regulatory power over media
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 September 2007, during an address broadcast on radio, President Rafael Correa asked the new Constituent Assembly, which will begin its deliberations on 30 September, to further regulate the media so as to “stop them from being able to manipulate information”. The president made this request after declaring that the state should […]
Police assault, briefly detain journalist in Cartago
(IPYS/IFEX) – In the early hours of 17 September 2007, reporter Juan Alonso Restrepo was assaulted by agents of the police’s motorized unit in Cartago, a city in southwestern Colombia, as he was leaving the headquarters of CNC television station. He had just finished taping an interview with a candidate to the municipal council about […]
Radio programme cancelled following criticism of local politician
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 September 2007, Rusbel Ferri Castro, the owner of Sensación radio station, cancelled the “Contacto Democrático” programme, hosted by journalist Wilbert Valentín Rosado Arce. According to the journalist, the sudden closure was due to pressure exerted by supporters of Fuerza Loretana, a political party led by Iván Vásquez Valera, current president of […]
Journalist receives death threat for criticising local politician
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 September 2007, three unidentified men came to journalist Gudelia Gálvez Tafur’s front door and threatened to kill her and harm her family if she continued criticising Ancash’s regional president, César Álvarez Aguilar. The incident occurred in the city of Huaraz, northwestern Peru. Gálvez is the host of the “Alpamayo Noticias” programme, […]
Prison guards fire upon journalists to prevent them taking photographs of inmates’ hunger strike
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 14 September 2007, National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) personnel working at the jail in Chimbote, a port in northern Peru, fired upon several journalists with breech-loading guns in order to prevent them from photographing the hunger strike started by prison inmates. The journalists targeted were Shirley Oliva Cuevas of “La Industria de Chimbote”, […]
Journalists assaulted by municipal officials in Chimbote and Huaraz
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 12 September 2007, Isís Chafloque Valuis and Ingrid Casas Calderón, journalists with Panamericana Televisión’s programme “Buenos Días Chimbote”, were assaulted and threatened by municipal police officer Humberto Venegas Liñán, who acts as security for the Provincial Mayor’s Office in Santa, Chimbote, in northwestern Peru. The incident took place when the reporters attempted […]
Two political candidates arrested in connection with journalist’s murder
(FLIP/IPYS/IFEX) – On 12 September 2007, Juan Pablo Ariza, a municipal council candidate, and Abelardo Rueda Tobón, a departmental assembly candidate, were arrested in Barrancabermeja, Santander, in connection with the 6 April 2003 murder of journalist José Emeterio Rivas. The arrests were carried out by officers of the Judicial Police and the Technical Department of […]