20 March 2007

Alert

Journalist assaulted, her footage and videocamera stolen, while investigating illegal fishing operations


Incident details

Yolanda Mío Arteaga

journalist(s)

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(IPYS/IFEX) - On 14 March 2007, journalist Yolanda Mío Arteaga, vice-director of television station Canal 31's news programme "Primer Impacto", was assaulted and her video-camera stolen by alleged members of a mafia involved in illegal fishing. The assault took place moments after Mío filmed the search, by police, of premises owned by the mafia in the port of Chimbote, northwestern Peru.

The journalist was beaten after the police and representative of the Attorney General's Office completed their work. The assailants waited until the authorities left to force the journalist into the premises. There, Guillermo Meléndez Castillo and two unidentified men hit the journalist in the arms and face and seized her video-camera.

The journalist filed a complaint at the Chimbote police station. Police were able to recover the camera, but it was damaged. The men stole the videotape containing the footage of the police operation.



Source

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

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