16 October 2001

JOURNALIST FREED AFTER 8 ½ YEAR JAIL TERM


Journalist and professor Antero Gargurevich Oliva was released from prison on 5 October after serving eight and half years, reports the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC). Oliva was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison for having alleged links to the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) guerrilla group. According to WiPC, the only evidence produced in court to prove Oliva's links were a number of Shining Path documents and some Marxist literature given to him by several of his students. Oliva had been doing studies on violence in Peru. According to the National Association of Journalists, Peru, a colleague of Oliva's at the Technical University of Callao fingered him after being subjected to torture by the police.

Meanwhile, WiPC notes that three journalists – Juan de Mata Rockrose Berrospi, Javier Tuanama Valera and Pedro Carranza Ugaz – remain in prison due to terrorism-related charges. Berrospi, a producer for Radiodifusora Comas S.A., and Valera, a radio and print journalist, are serving respective jail terms of 20 years, while Ugaz is serving a 15-year sentence in Cajamarca. All have been imprisoned for allegedly collaborating with terrorist groups such as the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. For more information, see www.oneworld.org/internatpen/.




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SINGAPORE: POLITICAL CHILL FORCES CLOSURE OF MEDIA WATCHDOG 16 October 2001 INTERNATIONAL: FOR HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH JOURNALISM AWARD 16 October 2001 BANGLADESH: SCORES OF JOURNALISTS ATTACKED AFTER ELECTIONS 16 October 2001 TIBET (CHINA): BEIJING JAMS TIBETAN RADIO SERVICE 16 October 2001 AFGHANISTAN: FREE EXPRESSION GROUPS URGE GOVERNMENTS TO EASE PRESSURE ON REPORTERS COVERING AFGHAN WAR 16 October 2001 AZERBAIJAN: GOVERNMENT STEPS UP SUPPRESSION OF INDEPENDENT MEDIA 16 October 2001 JORDAN: CHANGES TO PENAL CODE A THREAT TO PRESS FREEDOM 16 October 2001

Peru

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