4 January 2006

Alert

Photographers assaulted by presidential security team


Incident details

Leocadio Madera, Wilar Lazo Molina

photographer(s)

assaulted

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(IPYS/IFEX) - On 29 December 2005, photographers Leocadio Madera of "El Sol" newspaper and Wilar Lazo Molina of "El Compatriota" were assaulted by members of President Alejandro Toledo's security team. The president had arrived in the southern city of Cusco to kick off various community campaigns.

Arguing that the photographers were in a restricted access zone, the security team members shoved Lazo out, and struck Madera several times in the face, removing him from the area as well. The reporters have not filed formal complaints.



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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