{"id":25345,"date":"2011-08-08T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25345"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:31:30","slug":"peru-tv-news-director-sentenced-after-denouncing-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25345","title":{"rendered":"Peru: TV news director jailed after denouncing corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Peru\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/peru\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peruvian <\/a>journalist C\u00e9sar Gonz\u00e1les has been <a title=\"Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/tv-news-director-sentenced-two-years-behind-bars-after-denouncing-corruption-peru\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced <\/a>to two years in prison and ordered to pay damages for the crime of &#8220;general misrepresentation of the State&#8221;. The case against Gonz\u00e1les, who directs and hosts a current affairs programme 60 Minute News on television channel UTV Canal 19 in the eastern city of Pucallpa, was initiated after he denounced corruption in the local government before the Oversight Committee of Congress. The journalist, who said he would appeal, deemed the sentence &#8220;political and judicial persecution&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peruvian journalist C\u00e9sar Gonz\u00e1les has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay damages for the crime of &#8220;general misrepresentation of the State&#8221;. The case against Gonz\u00e1les, who directs and hosts a current affairs programme 60 Minute News on television channel UTV Canal 19 in the eastern city of Pucallpa, was initiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[103,3609,82,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84679,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25345\/revisions\/84679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}