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Articles - Peru

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Peru

Lawyer killed while investigating murder of journalist

A district attorney investigating the killing of Peruvian journalist Pedro Flores Silva in 2011 was shot to death last week, reports the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS).

Brazil / Honduras / Peru

With three new deaths, Latin America is most dangerous region for journalists, say IFEX members

Three journalists have been killed in the space of a week in Brazil, Honduras and Peru, cementing Latin America's status as the most dangerous region for journalists in 2011 so far, report IFEX members.

Peru / Brazil

Journalists killed on World Press Freedom Day

Two journalists were gunned down in the Americas on World Press Freedom Day (3 May), a stark reminder of the dangers journalists face to keep us informed, say the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the International Press Institute (IPI) and other IFEX members.

Peru

IAPA welcomes legal reform to combat crimes against journalists

Peru's judiciary has finally created a special jurisdiction to deal with serious crimes committed against journalists, after years of campaigning by the Inter American Press Assocation (IAPA) and the Peruvian Press Council.

Peru

Journalists targeted for doing their job

Peruvian journalists are being censored, stabbed, beaten unconscious, and threatened with prison terms, for covering corruption, for criticising local politicians, and for shedding light on protests and social injustice, report the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) and the Observatorio Latinoamericano para la Libertad de Expresión (OLA).

Peru

PERIODISTAS RADIOFÓNICOS CONSTITUYEN EL GRUPO DE MEDIOS MÁS ATACADO EN PERÚ, DICE EL IPYS

Peru

LES JOURNALISTES DE LA RADIO SONT LE GROUPE DE MÉDIAS LE PLUS CIBLÉ AU PÉROU, DIT L'IPYS

Peru

RADIO JOURNALISTS MOST TARGETED MEDIA GROUP IN PERU, SAYS IPYS

When it comes to attacks on the media, radio journalists were the most frequent targets of aggression in 2008 in Peru, says the Institute of Press and Society (IPYS) in a new report.

Peru

REPORTERO DE RADIO BALEADO EN APARENTE ASESINATO POR ENCARGO

Peru

UN REPORTER DE LA RADIO EST ABATTU DANS CE QUI A TOUT L'AIR D'ÊTRE UN MEURTRE COMMANDITÉ

Peru

RADIO REPORTER GUNNED DOWN IN APPARENT CONTRACT KILLING

A radio journalist gunned down in front of his family may have been killed because of his work, report the Institute for Press and Society (Institute Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS), Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the International Freedom of Journalists affiliate Asociación Nacional de Periodistas del Perú (ANP).

Peru

AUMENTAN VIOLACIONES A LA LIBERTAD DE PRENSA

Peru

LES VIOLATIONS DE LA LIBERTÉ DE LA PRESSE SE MULTIPLIENT

Peru

PRESS FREEDOM VIOLATIONS INCREASE

In Peru, the Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) has released its annual press freedom report, saying the number of reported attacks on the press rose significantly in 2006 compared to the previous year.

Peru

LEY DE ONG PROPUESTA ONG AMENAZA LIBRE EXPRESIÓN

Peru

LA PROPOSITION DE LOI SUR LES ONG MENACE LA LIBRE EXPRESSION

Peru

PROPOSED NGO LAW THREATENS FREE EXPRESSION

The Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS), Human Rights Watch, the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) have expressed alarm at proposed amendments to a law in Peru that gives the government powers to deny foreign funds to free expression groups and thousands of other non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Peru

ACCESO A LA INFORMACIÓN ES VITAL PARA MEJORAR LA SALUD REPRODUCTIVA Y SEXUAL: ARTICLE 19

Peru

L'ACCÈS À L'INFORMATION, ÉLÉMENT VITAL D'UNE MEILLEURE SANTÉ REPRODUCTIVE ET SEXUELLE, DIT ARTICLE 19

Peru

ACCESS TO INFORMATION VITAL FOR IMPROVING REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH: ARTICLE 19

Access to information is a vital component of any serious strategy to promote and protect the right to reproductive and sexual health, argues ARTICLE 19 in a new report published in collaboration with the Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) and the Flora Tristán Centre for Peruvian Women.

Peru

LA SIP ET L'IPYS FONT CAUSE COMMUNE DANS UNE INITIATIVE POUR COMBATTRE L'IMPUNITÉ

Peru

SIP E IPYS SE UNEN A INICIATIVA PARA COMBATIR IMPUNIDAD

Peru

IAPA, IPYS JOIN INITIATIVE TO FIGHT IMPUNITY

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and the Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) have joined forces with Peruvian journalists to call for legal reforms to combat crimes against journalists and end impunity in Peru.

Peru

DE PLUS EN PLUS D'ATTENTATS CONTRE LES JOURNALISTES

Peru

AUMENTAN AGRESIONES CONTRA PERIODISTAS

Peru

ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS INCREASING

In Peru, an increasing number of journalists are being physically and verbally assaulted, with many of the attacks coming from members of the public, says Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), citing a recent report by the National Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP).

Peru

L'IPYS S'INQUIÈTE POUR LA LIBERTÉ DE LA PRESSE

Peru

IPYS EXPRESA SU PREOCUPACIÓN POR LIBERTAD DE PRENSA

Peru

IPYS RAISES CONCERNS FOR PRESS FREEDOM

In Peru, the Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) says there is cause for concern over the state of press freedom in the country. In the last 12 months, the IFEX member has reported more than twice as many violations than it did in 2003.

Peru

LOCUTOR DE RADIO ASESINADO

Peru

UN ANIMATEUR DE LA RADIO EST ASSASSINÉ

Peru

RADIO HOST MURDERED

The Institute for Press Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS), Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) are calling for an investigation into the murder of Antonio De La Torre Echeandía, a radio journalist stabbed to death on 14 February 2004.

Peru

IPYS REVAMPS WEBSITE

The Institute for Press and Society (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, IPYS) has revamped its website, adding new features, including an archive containing some of the best investigative reporting in the region over the past 20 years.

Peru

NEW ACCESS-TO-INFORMATION LAW AVAILABLE ONLINE

The world's newest access-to-information law is now available online (in Spanish only). On 27 June, Peru's Congress passed the Access to Information Law, a move the Peruvian Press Council (PPC) calls a step in the right direction. PPC has been leading a campaign to create such a law. It says the law needs to be strengthened so that it can bring an end to the "culture of secrecy" in Peru and encourage greater government transparency.

Peru

UN SÉMINAIRE SE PENCHE SUR LA QUESTION DE L?ACCÈS À L?INFORMATION

Peru

SEMINARIO ABORDA ACCESO A LA INFORMACIÓN

Peru

SEMINAR TACKLES ACCESS TO INFORMATION

ARTICLE 19 and the Paraguay Union of Journalists (Sindicato de Periodistas Paraguay, SPP) will be participating in a seminar this month in Peru that will highlight the need for progressive access to information laws in Latin America. Convened by the Peruvian Press Council (Consejo de la Prensa Peruana, CPP), "Access to State Information: New Challenges for Freedom of Expression on the Continent" will take place 23-24 April in Arequipa. It will raise awareness about the right to freely access information and the challenges to overcoming government secrecy.

Peru

JOURNALIST RELEASED AFTER EIGHT YEARS

Authorities in Peru have released Pedro Carranza Ugaz, a journalist who was jailed for over eight years for allegedly collaborating with terrorists, reports the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC). Carranza Ugaz, a journalist for Radio Oriental and "El Tarapotino" magazine, was pardoned after the Ministry of Justice's National Human Rights Council reviewed his case.

Peru

PERIODISTA LIBERADO DESPUÉS DE OCHO AÑOS Y MEDIO DE CÁRCEL

Peru

UN JOURNALISTE EST LIBÉRÉ APRÈS HUIT ANS ET DEMI DE PRISON

Peru

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.

Peru

INDULTAN A PERIODISTA Y LO LIBERAN DESPUÉS DE NUEVE AÑOS DE CÁRCEL

Peru

UN JOURNALISTE REÇOIT UN PARDON ET EST LIBÉRÉ APRÈS NEUF ANS DE PRISON

Peru

JOURNALIST PARDONED AND RELEASED AFTER NINE YEARS IN PRISON

Nearly nine years after being arrested on charges of "terrorism," journalist Hermes Rivera Guerrero has been pardoned and released, report the Human Rights section for Latin America of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) and the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WiPC). Rivera, who had always maintained his innocence, was pardoned on 11 April and released from Picsi prison five days later, reports WiPC. He had been in jail since 8 May 1992, serving a twenty year sentence, adds IFJ.

Peru

D?UN JOURNALISTE EST CONSIDÉRÉ COMME UNE VICTOIRE DE LA LIBERTÉ D?EXPRESSION

Peru

RETORNO DE PERIODISTA EXILIADO SE VE COMO VICTORIA DE LIBRE EXPRESIÓN

Peru

EXILED JOURNALIST'S RETURN SEEN AS FREE EXPRESSION VICTORY

The return of media tycoon Baruch Ivcher to Peru from exile "marks the end of a notorious human rights case and highlights the sea of change in Peru's political climate since the collapse of the old order last month," reports the "Financial Times". Ivcher's Peruvian citizenship was renounced and his television station, Frecuencia Latina, closed in 1997 for "criticising the government," says the "Financial Times". Prior to this, Ivcher had "exposed cases of murder, torture and phone-tapping allegedly carried out by the secret services under Vladimiro Montesinos, the former spy chief." Stripped of his citizenship, he was unable to own a TV station and was offered $19 million by government authorities if he would let them "set" the station's "news agenda." He also had a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly evading taxes. An emergency court, however, recently annulled these arrest warrants, enabling for Ivcher to return without threat.

Peru

DES JOURNALISTES ET DES MANIFESTANTS SONT BLESSÉS

Peru

MEDIA COVERAGE OF PROTESTS RESTRICTED, JOURNALISTS AND DEMONSTRATORS INJURED

A number of demonstrators protesting the swearing-in of President Alberto Fujimori, as well as local and foreign journalists covering the event, were injured in a clash between protesters and police on 28 July, report the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The journalists also had some equipment seized by police, says IFJ. The protests were organised by opposition leader Alejandro Toledo to contest the controversial May elections which saw President Alberto Fujimori elected to a third term in office. Toledo boycotted the May 28 election and has accused Fujimori of electoral fraud. It is estimated that around 80,000 demonstrators attended the protests.

Peru

PERIODISTA RADIOFÓNICO ASESINADO

Peru

ASSASSINAT D?UN JOURNALISTE DE LA RADIO

Peru

RADIO JOURNALIST KILLED

Journalist Luis Baltazar Caviedes Nuñez de la Torre was killed in suspicious circumstances, according to a press release from the National Association of Peruvian Journalists (ANP) distributed by the Human Rights section for Latin America of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The journalist was found unconscious on 2 July on the banks of the Chuyapi river, suffering from bruises and injuries to the right side of his head and right eye, and was taken to the Quillabamba hospital by the police. He was the founder of ANP's Quillabamba branch in Cuzco and worked for the Sur Oriente and Frecuencia Integral radio stations.

Peru

PERIODISTAS Y MANIFESTAN LESIONADOS

Peru

UNE ENTREPRISE DE PRESSE DOIT AFFRONTER DES AGRESSIONS

Peru

MEDIOS SE ENFRENTAN A ATAQUES EN PROCESO ELECTORAL VICIADO

Peru

MEDIA FACES ATTACKS IN MARRED ELECTORAL PROCESS

The media in Peru were under attack during the recent run-off elections in Peru, which were widely condemned as unfair. On 24 May, journalist Fabián Salazar Olivares of "La República" was held and tortured by alleged agents of the National Intelligence Service (Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional, SIN) for possessing a number of documents and videotapes which implicate and jeopardise a number of high-ranking government and electoral officials, report the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Reporters sans frontières (RSF). Salazar was tortured when he refused to disclose from whom he had obtained the information, says IPYS.

Peru

MEDIOS PENALIZADOS EN VIRTUD DE LEY ELECTORAL

Peru

LA LOI ÉLECTORALE PÉNALISE LES MÉDIAS

Peru

MEDIA PENALISED UNDER ELECTORAL LAW

The National Elections Board will impose a fine of approximately US$84,000 on the independent television station, Canal N, for its "inadvertent" broadcasting of the election polls on 5 April, report the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). According to IPYS, the Board alleges that the station violated Article 191 of Peruvian electoral law which "prohibits media from disseminating information about voter preferences" less than 15 days before the election. The elections took place on 9 April. Not only is this fine outrageous, says CPJ, but Article 191 itself "inhibits the full exercise of press freedom." The poll information was announced by a participant in a forum that the station broadcast live, even though organisers instructed participants not to reveal these statistics. Both groups note that Canal N, which has been openly critical of the government in the past, is receiving a much heavier fine than other broadcasters who have committed similar infractions in the past. According to IPYS, Canal N provided balanced coverage of the electoral process in the lead up to the elections, playing a critically important role in the democratic process.

Peru

LE PARTI PRIS DES MÉDIAS ENTACHE LE PROCESSUS ÉLECTORAL

Peru

TENDENCIAS DE LOS MEDIOS ARRUINAN PROCESO ELECTORAL

Peru

MEDIA BIASES MAR ELECTORAL PROCESS

Observers of the pre-election period in Peru denounced the media's lack of objectivity in a recent report, stating that the biases have "muddied" the country's electoral campaign, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The country's general elections are scheduled to take place on 9 April. The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Instituto Democrático Nacional para Asuntos Internacionales, NDI) and the Carter Center, an independent non-governmental organisation, which collaboratively prepared the report, state that many media groups "openly demonstrate their bias against, and hostility toward, opposition candidates and electoral observers." According to the monitors, a number of opposition candidates have been refused "paid publicity slots on widely broadcast stations." The Legal Defence Institute (Instituto de Defensa Legal, IDL) has also issued an "Alert" concerned with the fact that President Fujimori, who is seeking re-election, has controlled the country's most popular television stations "without needing to resort to legislation, expropriation, deportations or detentions."

Peru

JOURNALISTE DE LA RADIO BRUTALEMENT ASSASSINÉ

Peru

RADIO JOURNALIST BRUTALLY MURDERED

Journalist Félix Haro Rodríguez was found dead on 4 June in Peru, report the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) and Reporters sans frontières (RSF). Haro Rodríguez was a professional photographer and host of "Recuerdos de los Andes", a programme featuring traditional music, which was broadcast on Radio 1160's affiliate in Aucayacu (north of Lima.) The journalist was attacked with machetes and his body dismembered in a manner "reminiscent of the method used by the Shining Path," says IPYS. Haro Rodríguez was last seen alive on 2 June after several unknown persons came to his home under the pretense of hiring him to take photographs at a social gathering. His body was discovered in Cotomonillo, three kilometers from Aucayacu, where six villagers had recently been assassinated by a brigade of the Shining Path.

Peru

DES JOURNALISTES SONT MENACÉS

Peru

PERIODISTAS AMENAZADOS; INVESTIGACIÓN DE MUERTE CERRADA

Peru

JOURNALISTS THREATENED; MURDER INVESTIGATION CLOSED

Journalists across Peru have been attacked and threatened with death, report the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) and the human rights section for Latin America of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in Peru. On 18 March, Radio Marañon journalist José Luis Linares Altamirano, was shot by two hooded assailants in his home in Jaen, Cajamarca, in northeastern Peru. Linares is the director of two radio programmes, one in which he reads press releases and a romantic one named "Punto Corazon". IPYS reports, "The bullets pierced Linares' small intestine and injured part of one of his kidneys, as a result of which he is fighting for his life." Etalo Salazar, chief of programming for Radio Marañon, told IPYS "this attack is part of a systematic campaign against journalists, particularly journalists working with this broadcaster, given that three months ago they began to receive threatening telephone calls, apparently in response to their critical stance on issues such as human rights violations and the environment."