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Ivan Slokovichnewspaper director Mailexpressed his concern about the bills submitted by the court Free Peru who seek to coerce journalists and the media, considering these initiatives “very dangerous” for freedom of speech.
“We treat this project with great concern. In practice, the most dangerous thing about this project is that it increases the penalties for defamation, slander and insult; but the main thing is that it increases to five years of real imprisonment for crimes related to defamation through the media, which in practice allows the judge to dictate an effective prison term against a journalist,” he said in a statement. News extension.
“This is very serious. We need to pay attention to this, this is a bill introduced by Congressman Montalvo from Peru Libre, which is very dangerous for freedom of expression, while we already have other problems that have arisen since the establishment of this government, in terms of view of freedom of speech, such as physical attacks and gag law”, he added.
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President of the Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP), Zuliana Lines, noted that in just 48 hours the Peru Libre parliamentarian, Second Montalvopresented two bills related to media work.
The first establishes the obligation of public and private media to broadcast for 20 minutes a year the managerial achievements of the central government, regional and municipal authorities. Second, the penalty with 4 years in prison for those citizens who are convicted of libel.
Laines believed that the purpose of these parliamentary initiatives was to force press and that the defamation project seeks to intimidate to journalists.
“From National Association of Journalists (ANP)we have qualified the account (…) as excessive, inhibitory D despite to freedom of speech, because it is a matter of transforming efficient prison which could lead to a libel conviction,” he said.
In this sense, he believed that the defamation complaint was in fact a pretext for stopping investigative journalism.
“We from the ANP pointed out that this is a strategy that many authorities or people who perform public functions, unfortunately, used to intimidate or want to distort the investigations disclosed by journalists,” he stressed.
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