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.
01 Apr 10 | Index Index, minipost
On 25 March, Alfredo Zamora Nolly, a journalist from Radio LEGT and host of the programme Poder Popular, was warned by a phone call that someone was hiring assasins to kill him, in the province of Padre Abad, Ucayali region. Zamora Nolly received a call from the Pucallpa prison warning him about the threat. Zamora had recently denounced irregularities in the execution of a special project on the control of coca farming in the Ucayali region. “They won’t shut me up. I am going to continue this type of objective and impartial reporting. This is the theme of my programme. They aren’t going to intimidate me”, Zamora Nolly said.
