By Dean Graber
The station, La Voz de Bagua (The Voice of Bagua), is accused of inciting violence during disturbances in Peru's Amazon last June that left at least 30 people dead, EFE explains.
“For us it is important that the government has ample respect for freedom of expression, regardless of the size of the medium… both in the capital and the interior," IAPA's vice president, Gonzalo Marroquín, said, as quoted by La República.
Marroquín also announced that Peru's judiciary has pledged to create a special tribunal that will try crimes against journalists, allowing those cases to be handled promptly and avoiding possible pressures on judges, another EFE report says.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
