(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 November 2006, journalist Darwin Paniagua Yumbato, a correspondent for the television channel Frecuencia Latina, was hit by the general manager of Maynas provincial municipality, José Mamán, after the journalist criticized Mamán’s participation in the mayor’s re-election campaign during his working hours as a municipal official. The assault took place in the […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 November 2006, journalist Darwin Paniagua Yumbato, a correspondent for the television channel Frecuencia Latina, was hit by the general manager of Maynas provincial municipality, José Mamán, after the journalist criticized Mamán’s participation in the mayor’s re-election campaign during his working hours as a municipal official. The assault took place in the region of Loreto, in northeastern Peru, while the journalist was covering a political event in which Mayor Juan del Águila Cárdenas was participating.
Just prior to the assault, the municipal official had demanded that the journalist identify himself. After he did so, the journalist asked the official what he was doing attending a political event. The official responded by hitting the journalist in the face.
According to the reporter, he just managed to escape when the municipality’s security guards were about to attack him.
