Alfonso Castiglione Mendoza remains in prison awaiting retrial
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 3 July, 8 February 1995; 4 November, 31, 13 October, 7 September, 22 August, 15, 12, 8, 7, 1 July, 13 June and 25 May 1994** Journalist Alfonso Castiglione Mendoza remains in detention, awaiting a retrial ordered over two months ago. On 7 June 1995, the Supreme Court of Peru revoked […]
President’s Office promulgates reforms to Habeas Data laws
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 25 April 1995; 18 August, 26 May, 26, 15 and 13 April 1994** The reforms to the constitutional guarantees regarding “Action of Protection [under the law]” (Accion de Amparo) and Habeas Data were promulgated on 12 June 1995 by the President’s Office and the texts published in the official daily “El […]
Journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales freed
On 1 June 1995, after having been imprisoned for more than two years, Peruvian journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales was found innocent by a special anonymous tribunal of the Lima Supreme Court. **Updates Alerts from 31 March and 16 February 1995. For background, see Alerts from 6 September and 26 July 1994** The case was returned […]
Journalist Hermes Rivera Guerrero goes to court for ratification of 20 year sentence
**Updates IFEX CH alerts of 3 February & 16 November 1994** On 7 March, at 11:00am, the defence lawyer for journalist Hermes Rivera Guerrero will present an appeal for review of his case before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Peru. The Court must ratify Rivera’s sentence of 20 years imprisonment, handed […]
Detention of journalist Augusto Ernesto Llosa Giraldo
On 14 February 1995 journalist Augusto Ernesto Llosa Giraldo of Radio Casma and the editor of the newspaper “El Casmeno”, was detained by the National Police on charges implicating him in a terrorism case that occurred in 1986. The detention order was issued by the Superior Court in Cuzco. The journalist was detained in Casma, […]
Retrial to begin for journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales
**Updates IFEX CH alerts dated 26 January 1995, 6 September and 26 July 1994** The retrial of journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales will begin on 16 February 1995 at 15:00 hours in the Castro Castro prison in Lima. The trial should last approximately five days. Recommended Action Send appeals to Peruvian authorities: asking that all the […]
International press faces discrimination in covering Peru- Ecuador conflict
Since the beginning of aggressions along the Peru-Ecuador border, Peruvian authorities have obstructed the work the international press. The foreign press corps has been excluded from two press conferences given by Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. According to the Association for the Foreign Press in Peru (APEP), which represents 80 foreign correspondents accredited to report in […]
Detained journalist Hermes Rivera Guerrero on hunger strike
**Updates IFEX alert dated 16 November 1994** Dilcia de Rivera, the wife of detained journalist Hermes Rivera Guerrero, brought a letter from the journalist to the offices of IPYS. In it, Rivera indicates that he embarked on a hunger strike on 26 January, sewing his mouth closed with thread. His wife indicated to IPYS that […]
Verdict overturned in the case of journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales; date for retrial imminent
Last week, the Supreme Court overturned the decision of an anonymous tribunal which had sentenced journalist Pedro Valdez Bernales to twenty years in jail. A retrial is set to happen. According to the Peruvian human rights organization APRODEH, whose lawyers are defending Valdez, news of the date of the retrial should come at the beginning […]
Canal 11 RBC television signal interrupted for four days
Television channel Canal 11 RBC’s signal was interrupted on 4 January 1995 and the station was forced off the air for four days. On 4 January, during an interview with General Luis Cisneros Visquerra on the show “Women Have the Say” in which he made remarks against the government, the channel went off the air […]