Peru - Second journalist murdered this year, authorities urged to act

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Peruvian authorities to give clear evidence of a determination to combat impunity after the second murder of a journalist in Peru this year. Shot by masked gunmen near his home in the northwestern city of Casma on 7 September, TV journalist Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva died of injuries to the liver and colon yesterday. Aged 36, Flores was the programme director of Casma's Canal 6 TV station. The Press and Society Institute (IPYS) and the National (...)

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