(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 May 2000, IPYS reported that it has been suffering from a systematic blockage of its electronic mail since March 2000. This blockage prevents the rapid transmission of alerts that are sent from its offices in the normal fashion. While certain difficulties in sending and receiving e-mail have been experienced over the […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 May 2000, IPYS reported that it has been suffering from a systematic blockage of its electronic mail since March 2000. This blockage prevents the rapid transmission of alerts that are sent from its offices in the normal fashion.
While certain difficulties in sending and receiving e-mail have been experienced over the last two years, this has not stopped IPYS from receiving information, nor has it prevented any information from reaching its proper destination.
Nevertheless, in the last two months a selective blocking of messages appears to be occurring. For example, it has been verified that all of the alerts sent to IFEX “have remained in the pathway”; while every other type of messages sent to other addresses have not been subject to the same complications.
At the end of March, IPYS received a message from IFEX stating that no alerts had been received from IPYS throughout the entire month. Believing that there was a technical problem, the delayed information was resent from a distant web-site, using public Internet sites.
However, in the week of 15 May, it was noted that not a single one of the alerts that IFEX normally bounces back to IPYS had arrived. After communicating with IFEX, IPYS verified that the alerts from April and May also did not reach their destination.
The same situation was verified as having occurred with a number of Peru’s human rights organizations to whom IPYS reports, such as the Association for the Promotion of Human Rights (Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos, Aprodeh) and the office of the ombudsman.
