After the appeal filed by Ignacio Álvarez, the 6th shift Sexual Crimes Prosecutor He desisted from requesting the search, seizure or search of the journalist’s devices, who released audios linked to the gang rape case that occurred in Cordón last month.
“The evidentiary purpose that was being pursued was frustrated,” reported the Prosecutor’s Office and efforts will be made to obtain evidence “without proceedings that could be attributed a connotation of risk for the free exercise of freedom of expression.”
In this sense, from the Prosecutor’s Office they said that this freedom is a right that is sought to “guarantee”, but that in this case it must be analyzed “if limits were transgressed” that the law imposes.
The crime for which Álvarez is being investigated is stipulated in article 92 of the law on gender violence (19,580), which says: “Whoever disseminates, reveals, exhibits or transfers to third parties images or recordings of a person with intimate or sexual content , without your authorizationwill be punished with a sentence of six months in prison to two years in penitentiary”.
The prosecution had requested the search of the radio station Azul FM, where Álvarez broadcasts his program, and the judge had granted that request. This decision worried the Uruguayan Press Association (APU), who requested a meeting with the court prosecutor, Juan Gómez, where the case was discussed.
