16 Aug 10 | Index Index, minipost, News and features
Carlos Flores Borja, winner of the Guardian Journalism award at this year’s Index on Censorship Free Expression Awards Ceremony, has been told that he will not be allowed relaunch of Amazonian community radio station Radio La Voz de Bagua, in spite of promises from President Alan García.
Carlos Flores Borja, the manager of Amazonian radio station travelled to Lima last week because he had been given an appointment with transport and communications minister Enrique Cornejo on 11 August to discuss the reopening of the station, which the government closed 14 months ago.
But in the end, Flores was received by deputy minister Jorge Cuba Hidalgo, who told him that the station will remain closed.
19 Apr 10 | Index Index, minipost
Geovanni Acate, director of Radio Televisión Oriente, is facing a 10-year prison sentence after being charged with disrupting public tranquility and instigating the public to commit the crime of rebellion. Geovanni Acate, as Radio La Voz and other radio stations in the region, has been persecuted after reporting on the protests that took place in Bagua Grande in 2009.
14 Apr 10 | Index Index, minipost
A journalist was knocked unconscious during an attack by police officers and security guards. Orlando Rucana Cuba, editor of La Revista newspaper and director of the news program Canal 27’s ITN programme, was beaten while filming a group of municipal police and security guards evicting street vendors in Huaraz, Ancash province.
13 Apr 10 | Index Index, minipost
On 7 April, Enrique Lazo Flores, editor of the newspaper La Región, in the southern city of Ilo, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of attacking the honor of Renato Ascuña Chavera, a regional politician. The jail sentence was later suspended. The lawsuit questioned a series of articles about Ascuña Chavera’s suspension from his post, for indiscipline and breach of duties, as well as criticism of his conduct published by the newspaper La Región.
