"The former district councillor and former candidate for Congreso de Solidaridad Nacional (today Renovación Popular), Freddy Pinto Pazos, filed a Habeas Data to get the courts to order OjoPúblico to eliminate a report, which revealed the participation of the prosecutor's office and the Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office in a process of expired ownership [when property of […]
“The Presidency of the Republic expressed its apologies to the TV Peru reporter who was forcibly removed by the security personnel who were guarding the head of state, Pedro Castillo, this afternoon while he was moving on foot to the Municipality of Lima. [...] Tiffany Tipiani, while trying to collect the statements that Pedro Castillo […]
"Representatives of electoral institutions from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru signed a declaration in Quito with the aim of jointly combating false news and disinformation generated around electoral processes. [...] Among the commitments of the meeting, the participants reiterated their intention to continuously apply good regional practices for verifying information (factchecking) and actions against disinformation […]
“During the 2021 electoral process, 71 attacks on journalists and the media were registered by the Human Rights Office of the National Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP, for its acronym in Spanish). Said registry covers attacks that occurred from January to Monday, July 19, the date on which the president-elect, Pedro Castillo Terrones, was […]
"The Voces del Sur (VDS) network presented the Shadow Report 2020 that compiles alerts related to violations of freedom of expression, freedom of the press and access to information that occurred in 13 Latin American countries: Argentina , Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. [...] The regional results […]
“The National Association of Journalists of Peru condemns the attacks on journalists during a demonstration of Fujimori sympathizers in the streets of downtown Lima on Wednesday, July 14, in the afternoon and evening. In this protest, members of the self-styled group 'La Resistencia' attacked Fátima Chávez of Canal N; Anghela Torres, Karina Reynafarge Herrada, Ronald […]
"In Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, and Peru, emergency measures in response to COVID-19 restricted the media’s capacity to report freely and the public’s ability to access information, including critical information about public health interventions and the pandemic itself, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw program found. The report, […]
"The Peruvian Foreign Press Association (APEP, for its acronym in Spanish), an organization with more than 50 years of history and almost eighty members, has repudiated what it considered a campaign of 'systematic harassment and defamation' against some of its members. In a statement, it highlights the cases of Jacqueline Fowks, a contributor to this […]
"In the absence of a few minutes for the closing of the vote count for the second round [of presidential elections], and after a group of journalists denounced censorship by the news director of América TV and Canal N to report against Pedro Castillo, the executives of the television houses separated [a number of] communicators […]
"[In Peru], former presidential candidate and leader of the Alliance for Progress (APP, for its acronym in Spanish), César Acuña, sued the journalist and author of the book 'Plata como cancha,' Christopher Acosta, for alleged defamation. Likewise, he demanded the payment of civil compensation of 100,000,000 soles (about US $26 million) for allegedly having 'damaged […]