24 March 2009

Alert

Activist accused of assaulting journalists arrested at pro-government rally


Incident details

Javier Fernando Alanota

journalist(s)

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(RSF/IFEX) - Self-proclaimed pro-government activist Adolfo Tito Cerrudo Dávila, who is facing two cases of assault against journalists, was arrested during a demonstration in La Paz on 16 March 2009 for failing to comply with the terms of a judicial order.

On 6 March 2008, Juan Carlos Rocha Cavaría, editor of the privately-owned daily "La Razón", filed a complaint against Cerrudo after the activist issued death threats and threatened to rape a journalist working for the newspaper. The accused failed to attend a court hearing.

Cerrudo is also facing charges of assault and "impeding (a journalist's) freedom to work" following an October 2008 incident which prompted complaints by Javier Fernando Alanota of the privately-owned ATB media group and Jorge Tejerina of the Cadena A network.

Cerrudo is the second person in Bolivia currently imprisoned for an attack involving the media.

Updates the Alanota and the "La Razón" journalist's cases: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/100291



Source

Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
 

More on this case

Judge orders arrest of man who threatened journalists 26 January 2009 Activist placed under house arrest for threatening journalists 29 July 2008 Ruling party sympathisers threaten to rape journalist in La Paz 12 March 2008

Bolivia

Government official announces criminal defamation lawsuit against journalist 5 March 2010 RSF urges army to open dictatorship files and allow access to information 22 February 2010 Police officers assault and detain television crew; journalist reports she was kidnapped 2 December 2009 Demonstrators burst into state-owned radio station, interrupt its broadcast 13 November 2009 President rebukes two journalists who questioned him about a terrorism case 5 November 2009


 
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