Radio journalist murdered in northeastern Peru

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Iquitos, the capital of northeastern Peru’s Loreto region, to quickly shed light on the murder of Sonia Alvarado Huayunga, a journalist whose body was found in the province of Datem del Marañón, one of this Amazonian region’s six provinces, on Tuesday the 10th of December, three days after she went missing. The body bore the marks of blows and strangulation. Aged 28, Alvarado was a presenter on Radio Láser, a local radio station, and worked for the public relations department of Datem del Marañón.

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