(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 6 November 2005, a group of taxi drivers beat up reporters Diego Rojas Latorre and Ariana Rojas Latorre who work for Antena Norte Channel 35, after the journalists videotaped one of the drivers being detained by the police. The incident occurred outside the Gran Chimú Coliseum in Trujillo, a […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 6 November 2005, a group of taxi drivers beat up reporters Diego Rojas Latorre and Ariana Rojas Latorre who work for Antena Norte Channel 35, after the journalists videotaped one of the drivers being detained by the police. The incident occurred outside the Gran Chimú Coliseum in Trujillo, a city in northern Peru.
The journalists recorded the arrest of Hilton Gómez Mendoza, who is known to belong to an auto-theft gang. The other drivers assaulted them and stole the videotape. The journalists have filed a complaint with the police.
