Following a court decision as part of the lawsuits brought against her by the Peruvian Attorney General's Office, the secrecy of Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz's communications was lifted, according to the Spanish newspaper ABC, of which Ugaz is a correspondent in Lima.
The Peruvian court requested from Ugaz's telephone operator all the records of her calls and her geolocation information from 2013 to 2020, when she was investigating the religious movement Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana. Her journalistic work about the movement exposed a series of illicit practices that ended in the expulsion of its top leader, Fernando Figari, and the intervention of the Vatican.
“Thus I become the first journalist in Peru to have her communications lifted, using a very dangerous path for the future of investigative journalism, one that equates Peru to Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua,” Ugaz said, according to ABC.
