Overview
- More than 20 journalists were assaulted during September demonstrations in Lima, with police firing pellet rounds that injured reporters including Jhaira Pacheco and Percy Grados.
- The Public Ministry admitted for processing an anti-corruption office request to lift the secrecy of communications for journalists Rodrigo Cruz and César Prado, a step the CPP calls highly sensitive.
- The National Police announced it would file a harassment complaint against reporter Karla Ramírez after she sought officials’ responses for a TV investigation, which the CPP denounced as abusive.
- A new police resolution classifies all complaint records in its systems as reserved for five years, a move the CPP says curtails transparency and accountability.
- Congress’s Justice Commission is evaluating a bill by José Luis Elías Ávalos to criminalize publishing private messages without public interest, as the CPP also condemned a remark by Lima mayor Rafael López Aliaga understood as a death threat against Gustavo Gorriti.