Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Minister warns newspaper journalist and editor that their reports may violate the law
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 19 March 2007, Minister for the Popular Economy Pedro Morejón sent letters to Luz Mely Reyes and Eleazar Días Rangel, journalist and director respectively of “Últimas Noticias” newspaper, warning them that they may have committed several criminal offences by publishing an investigation that alleged there were irregularities in the implementation of an […]
Journalist’s home shot at in Zulia state
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 March 2007, unidentified individuals fired three shots at the home of “Reporte” newspaper columnist José Palmar, a priest. The shots hit the front wall of the home, located in the Sierra Maestra neighbourhood in Maracaibo, in the state of Zulia, which is located in the country’s west. Palmar does not discard […]
Journalist threatened for reporting on child pornography cases
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 and 18 March 2007, “La Verdad” newspaper news director José Gregorio Meza received threatening telephone calls for having reported on cases of child pornography in the city of Maracaibo, Zulia state, in the country’s west. He was warned that he was being watched. The threats were in relation to a report […]
Municipal employees urge public to destroy radio station’s facilities, force journalists out of city, over critical coverage
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 March 2006, Michael Ortiz Munares, the public relations manager for the municipality of Andahuaylas, urged the public to destroy Radio Panorama’s transmitter. He made the suggestion when he was taking part in an inspection of San José mountain, where the transmitters of various radio stations are located. His call was broadcast […]
Writer given suspended sentence, fined for plagiarising his own novel
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 March 2007, Judge Sonia Salvador Ludeña, of the Sixth Criminal Court of Lima (Sexto Juzgado Penal de Lima), sentenced the journalist and humourist Nicolás Yerovi to a suspended sentence of four years and a fine of 3.400 nuevos soles (approx. US$ 1,100), for plagiarizing his own novel. The suit was filed […]
Judge bursts into radio studio, interrupts programme to demand journalist reveal source’s identity
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 19 March 2007, Judge José Córdova Escobar violently burst into Radio Antena 3’s broadcasting booth and interrupted the broadcast of journalist Raúl Mendoza Paredes’s programme “Antena Noticias”. The judge wanted Mendoza to reveal the identity of a source who gave the journalist information that implicates him in a case currently before the […]
Journalist in Amazonas threatened, home attacked, over comments on colleague murdered in Jaén
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 March 2007, two men on a motorbike threw a teargas canister against the front of the house of journalist Hermes Rivera, current public relations representative of the municipality of Cajaruro in Bagua Grande, region of Amazonas in northeastern Peru. Rivera told IPYS that the attack was preceded by a series of […]
Two journalists in Jaén receive death threats after reporting on public security problems and corruption
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 March 2007, only four days after the murder of journalist Miguel Pérez Julca (see IFEX alert of 20 March 2007), journalists Juan Vásquez, correspondent for América Televisión television station, and Walter Altamirano, from Radio Acajú’s programme “La Voz del Pueblo”, who both live in the city of Jaén, received death threats […]