12 March 2008

Alert

Ruling party sympathisers threaten to rape journalist in La Paz


Incident details

journalist(s)

threatened

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(IPYS/IFEX) - The senior management of "La Razon" newspaper reported to IPYS that on the night of 6 March 2008 one of their journalists - whose name they preferred to keep confidential - was surrounded and threatened by a group of the ruling party's sympathisers, while she was covering a violent clash between members of President Evo Morales's party and anti-government demonstrators in a square in La Paz, the capital.

The journalist identified Adolfo Cerrado as the instigator of the aggression; he and nine other men surrounded her and threatened to rape her after she took their photographs.

The journalist managed to escape with the help of a police officer.



Source:

Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Sucre N° 317
Barranco, Lima
Perú
alertas (@) ipys.org
Phone: +51 1 2474465
Fax: +51 1 2473194
 

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Updates to this story

Activist accused of assaulting journalists arrested at pro-government rally 24 March 2009 Judge orders arrest of man who threatened journalists 26 January 2009 Activist placed under house arrest for threatening journalists 29 July 2008


 
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