Return. Yesterday’s reporters at the home of Gustavo Gorriti, director of IDL-Reporteros. Photo: diffusion
Journalist from various media went to the home of Gustavo Gorriti and Rosa María Palacios to show their solidarity after being harassed by the far-right group, La Resistencia.
The initiative, led by investigative reporter Edmundo Cruz, serves to support the two’s work.
On Tuesday, Gorriti and Palacios attended insulted. In fact, in the case of the former, there is an expression of xenophobia.
In an interview with the newspaper published on Thursday, Palacios pointed out that everything indicates that La Resistencia members had the approval of the mayor of Miraflores, Carlos Canales, who belongs to the ranks of the Renovación Popular. “They let them do it,” he said.
Attitude. Rosa María Palacios has the support of her colleagues. Photo: diffusion
At the same time, the Inter-American Press Association (SIP) condemned this harassment and called on the Peruvian authorities to “create a better security climate for those reporting social demonstrations from the scene.”
Michael Greenspon, president of Yes and global director of Licensing and Printing Innovation for The New York Times, asked government Dina Boluarte “Implement urgent measures to protect journalism, especially in times of political crisis, when the population needs diversified sources of information.”
Meanwhile, Carlos Jornet, president of the IAPA Committee on Freedom of Press and Information and journalistic director of the Argentinian newspaper La Voz del Interior, said “going to journalists’ homes is a new form of lynching.”
That’s not all. Yesterday Embassy The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement expressing their concern for the situation of press freedom in Peru.
“In times like these, dialogue is essential and the media has a critical role to play in reporting responsibly what is happening and encouraging constructive debate. For this reason, it is necessary to guarantee the right to freedom of the press, expression and access to public information, “said the foreign delegation’s statement. And he added that it is very important to vouch for the authorities “safety of journalists when they carry out their work freely”.
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