July 7, 2022, 8:30 PM
July 7, 2022, 8:30 PM
The Peruvian Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation on Thursday into the kidnapping of two journalists.
According to the story of the chain involved in this case, a journalistic team from América Televisión was on Wednesday in the province of Chota, where the president is from. peter castle, doing a report on Jenifer Paredes, the president’s sister-in-law who was raised as a daughter by the presidential couple.
Against her, the Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation last Monday after the Sunday program “Cuarto Poder”, of this chain, broadcast a video in which the young woman allegedly appears offering a sanitation work in Cajarmarca, despite the fact that she did not holds no public office.
More than four hours held
The alleged members of the peasant patrols, a sort of Andean self-defense militia that Castillo was part of in the past, held the team led by journalist Eduardo Quispe for more than four hours and coerced him to read a statement on the direct signal of the network. , rectifying the journalistic investigation on Paredes.
“As a media outlet, that we represent ‘Cuarto Poder’, it is a false accusation, so we rectify ourselves as a press, not to harm the central government or their families,” Quispe read.
América Televisión later clarified that it agreed to interrupt its programming and broadcast the statement “to protect the integrity of the kidnapped persons” because, it assured, “their lives were in danger.”
“Serious attack on the press”
These events, described by the Peruvian Press Council as “one of the most serious attacks on the press in recent years”, immediately set off the alarms of journalistic unions, civil organizations and the Ombudsman’s Office, which demanded an exhaustive investigation. to clarify what happened and punish those responsible.
In the same sense, Castillo expressed himself this Thursday, who also showed his “energetic” rejection to “any act of violence that violates personal freedoms, as well as freedom of the press and expression.”
In this regard, the Single National Central of Rondas Campesinas issued a statement this morning in which it rejected that “some media outlets, in a detrimental manner,” have designated them as “kidnappers” and accused of being “protecting the Government of the day.”
