Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation Sources News Release
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Publisher: Reporters without Borders Date Written: 13/01/10 Year Published: 2010 Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Reporters Without Borders condemns the one-year jail sentence that a court in Bagua, in the northeastern Amazonian province of Utcumbamba in Peru, passed yesterday on Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, the editor of the regional weekly Nor Oriente.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders condemns the one-year jail sentence that a court in Bagua, in the northeastern Amazonian province of Utcumbamba, passed yesterday on Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, the editor of the regional weekly Nor Oriente, on a change of aggravated defamation in a case dating back to 2005.
Carrascal fainted when the court issued its verdict and was rushed to hospital. The sentencing took place in his absence. He is now in Baguas San Humberto prison.
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