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 [...]

Peruvian human rights groups demand full investigation into allegations of police torture against anti-mining protesters in 2005

With photographs in hand, two human rights groups, the National Human Rights Coordinator, or CNDDHH, and Peru’s Ecumenical Foundation for Development and Peace, or Fedepaz, have demanded a thorough investigation into allegations of the torture and kidnapping of at least 29 anti-mining protesters by police in 2005.