World Report 2008: Peru

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by growing hostility toward independent media in Peru, where journalists are increasingly the target of judicial harassment, stigmatization, and physical –even lethal– attacks.

The office of Peru’s human rights ombudsman denounced the lack of security guarantees for journalists and also noted that the Celis’ killing occurred less than four months after TV journalist Gastón Medina was shot dead.

The undersigned organisations express our strongest condemnation of the enactment last April 14, 2025, without observation by the Executive Branch of Peru, of the law approved in Congress on March 12, which represents a serious threat to the defense of human rights. Likewise, the approval of this law does not comply with Peru’s obligation to guarantee the rights of assembly, association, expression, defense of human rights of the members of civil society organizations, access to justice, and the right to petition before an international body of the victims.