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In cold blood

Photographer slain in Lima, police urged to explore link to work

Published on 26 February 2013Read

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Potential minefield

Magazine accused of defending Shining Path terrorism, back copies seized

Published on 29 August 2012Read

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Open letter urges incoming president to ensure that journalists no longer fear imprisonment

Mr. Ollanta Humala President of the Republic Government Palace, Lima, Peru Dear President Humala, Today you assume the office that the (...)

Published on 28 July 2011 Read

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Amid witch-hunt before second round, candidates urged to keep press freedom promises

There is no clear front-runner in the presidential election run-off between Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori that is due to take place on 5 June (...)

Published on 13 May 2011 Read

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Journalist at odds with local authorities gunned down in northern city

Radio journalist Julio Castillo Narváez’s murder in Virú (in the northwestern department of La Libertad) on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, has cast (...)

Published on 5 May 2011 Read

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La Voz de Bagua allowed to resume broadcasting after 14 months off the air

The Peruvian government has announced that Amazonian radio station La Voz de Bagua can finally resume broadcasting today after being closed for (...)

Published on 20 August 2010 Read

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Call for defamation to be decriminalised following editor’s release

Provincial newspaper editor Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco was released from prison on 18 June on the orders of the supreme court in Lima after (...)

Published on 21 June 2010 Read

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Journalist gets jail sentence for defamation, second case this year

Oswaldo Pereyra Moreno, the host of the “Hora 13” show on Radio Macarena in the northern town of San Lorenzo, was sentenced to serve a year in (...)

Published on 11 June 2010 Read

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Journalist harassed in run-up to appeal hearing in major defamation case

A Lima court is due to begin tomorrow to hear an appeal by Lima Airport Partners CEO Jaime Daly Arbulú against a court ruling in March ordering (...)

Published on 26 May 2010 Read

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Former mayor acquitted again of ordering journalist’s murder

Luis Valdez Villacorta, the former mayor of Pucallpa (the capital of the east-central region of Ucayali), has been acquitted for the second time (...)

Published on 11 February 2010 Read