DA: charges warranted against police in Majaz mine torture case, mining camp’s private security agents exonerated

The Piura region district attorney has pressed criminal charges against some of the police officers involved in the torture and kidnapping of 29 anti-mining protesters in 2005, but has exonerated the Majaz mining camp security guards who also took part in incidents, daily La República reported Wednesday. According to district attorney Juan Ortiz Arévalo, a group of low-ranking [...]

Inter-American Press Association worried about growing number of acts of aggression against journalists in Peru

There is growing concern about the increase in the number of cases of journalists violently attacked and threatened with death in reprisal for their work, the Inter-American Press Association, or IAPA, said in its Report to the Midyear Meeting. One outstanding case is journalist Julio Vasquéz Calle, who said that he has received numerous death [...]

Amnesty International: Peru journalist and peasant community members pursuing a complaint against police for torture “are in grave danger”

Peru journalist Julio César Vásquez Calle and at least 28 members of peasant communities that charged police and Majaz mining camp security guards of torturing them during a quelled protest in 2005 have received menacing phone calls and death threats, Amnesty International reports. According to Amnesty, the peasants and Calle, who claims he was brutalized [...]