9 August 2006

Alert

Director of television programme repeatedly threatened, harassed


Incident details

Ronald Márquez Rosales

journalist(s)

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(IPYS/IFEX) - Since 15 July 2006, journalist Ronald Márquez Rosales, the director of the news programme "Casma al Día" on the television station Sideral TV Canal 7, has been the victim of repeated threats and harassment.

The first incident occurred when a resident from the area around Casma, a city in northwestern Peru, warned the journalist that he had been hired to give him a beating. The journalist informed IPYS that he receives regular threatening phone calls from unknown persons who watch his house and follow him on motorcycles.

According to Márquez, the threats stem from comments he made on his programme about how the police used money that was donated for the purchase of a motorcycle. He does not dismiss the possibility that the threats have been ordered by a Casma police official.

The journalist has not requested protection from authorities as he does not trust the officials of the Sub-Prefecture, who work with local police.



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

Journalist threatened anew, accused of defamation for criticizing police work 20 February 2007 Four journalists threatened, accuse chief of police 12 September 2006

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