Peru - IFEX Member Campaigns
RSF's letter highlights the obstacles to media pluralism and freedom of information and urges the president to work towards their removal.
At least eight journalists have been physically attacked, threatened, or verbally harassed in response to their coverage of the presidential race.
IAPA reminded Supreme Court Chief Justice Javier Villa Stein that he had pledged to present to the Executive Council the idea of setting up a special criminal court that would hear cases of offenses against journalists.
IAPA reviewed the possible reopening of an inland radio station and legal procedures in the case of a murdered journalist with President Alan García.