Overview

• Reporters, rights activists and academics held a "Nothing to celebrate" vigil outside Lima’s Palace of Justice, denouncing 29 aggression cases attributed to the national police during recent protests and demanding guarantees for press freedom.
• ANP president Zuliana Lainez said investigations have stalled into the 2025 killings of journalists Gastón Medina and Raúl Celis and condemned the criminalization of reporters from Panamericana TV and Latina.
• In Chiclayo, Lambayeque, journalists rallied in the main square to oppose repression and warned against judicial attempts to force disclosure of sources, which they called incompatible with a democratic society.
• The Colegio de Periodistas de Ayacucho reported more than 100 attacks on communicators this year and echoed an OAS rapporteur’s call for the Peruvian state to protect the right to information.
• Even as protests unfolded, the Universidad Católica de Santa María in Arequipa honored local outlets including Diario Correo, highlighting a day split between tributes and urgent alarms over press hostility.