(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 5 October 2006, Clarita Vásquez Maldonado and Perla Polo Salés – reporters for América TV television station’s programme “Primera Edición Chiclayo” – were assaulted by two individuals presumed to be protesters when they were covering the protest march of council workers of the city of Chiclayo in northwestern Perú. […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 5 October 2006, Clarita Vásquez Maldonado and Perla Polo Salés – reporters for América TV television station’s programme “Primera Edición Chiclayo” – were assaulted by two individuals presumed to be protesters when they were covering the protest march of council workers of the city of Chiclayo in northwestern Perú.
The reporters were interviewing the secretary general of the municipal council’s workers’ union (Sindicato de Obreros Municipales), Domingo Lloclla Saavedra, when they were pushed and hit from behind. The assailants, two women, claimed that the journalists were misinforming the public. Lloclla apologized for the assault but did not recognize the women as members of the union.
