23 March 2007

Alert

Judge bursts into radio studio, interrupts programme to demand journalist reveal source's identity


Incident details

Raúl Mendoza Paredes

journalist(s)

harassed

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(IPYS/IFEX) - On 19 March 2007, Judge José Córdova Escobar violently burst into Radio Antena 3's broadcasting booth and interrupted the broadcast of journalist Raúl Mendoza Paredes's programme "Antena Noticias". The judge wanted Mendoza to reveal the identity of a source who gave the journalist information that implicates him in a case currently before the courts of fraud and document forgery. The incident took place in Juanjuí, San Martín region, northeastern Peru.

The journalist told IPYS that he filed a complaint with the judiciary's disciplinary body (Oficina de Control de la Magistratura, OCMA), accusing the judge of violating press freedom, illegally entering a premises, and abuse of authority. Córdova Escobar works in the Criminal Court of Mariscal Cáceres-Juanjuí.



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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