“Journalists Vladimir Rojas and Ramiro Charca, from TV networks Unitel and Radio Televisión Popular (RTP), respectively, were injured today [May 16] in an ambush organized by roadblock protesters from the town of Lipari, in the municipality of Mecapaca, 18 kilometers south of La Paz [Bolivia], who used rocks and dynamite.
Rojas suffered leg injuries after falling while trying to flee the protesters’ attack […]. The Unitel reporter was violently detained for several minutes by the demonstrators, who also destroyed his cellphone, according to several reports from journalists who were harassed and chased through the mountains surrounding the highway connecting La Paz with the Río Abajo valley region.
An ambulance provided emergency care to Rojas after his release and took him to a hospital.
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Press crews from the television channels RTP, Bolivisión and Unitel, as well as photographers from print media outlets, were affected. […] RTP News Director Eduardo Godoy told the Monitoring Unit of newspapers represented by the National Press Association (ANP, by its acronym in Spanish) that journalist Ramiro Charca suffered bruising to one arm after being struck by a rock thrown by protesters from Lipari.”
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