(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 June 2007, a group of members of the Civil Construction Workers’ Union (Sindicato de Trabajadores de Construcción Civil) assaulted photographer Paul Meza Castañeda of Chimbote’s newspaper “La Industria”, when he was covering a union meeting. Chimbote is a port in northwestern Peru. The workers and their wives threw rocks and bricks […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 June 2007, a group of members of the Civil Construction Workers’ Union (Sindicato de Trabajadores de Construcción Civil) assaulted photographer Paul Meza Castañeda of Chimbote’s newspaper “La Industria”, when he was covering a union meeting. Chimbote is a port in northwestern Peru.
The workers and their wives threw rocks and bricks at Meza Castañeda when they realized that he was taking pictures of a fight among the union’s leaders. They then knocked him to the floor and hit him. Meza Castañeda suffered minor injuries and his camera was damaged.
