“This is an illegal order that violates fundamental rights recognized by the Peruvian Constitution and international agreements ratified by the Peruvian State,” Villarán explained. Rodrigo Villarán, lawyer and executive director of the Peruvian Press Council had told the Knight Center earlier in the week that the order from prosecutor Rodríguez Monteza constitutes abuse of authority, which is provided for in Article 376 of the Peruvian Penal Code. The pressure on the government had mounted quickly. In the Crosshairs: Gustavo Gorriti, director of GIJN member IDL-Reporteros. And not long after Rodríguez Monteza ordered Gorriti and journalist Rosana Cueva to reveal their sources and deliver the audio material of their journalistic investigation, the Attorney General of the Nation, Pablo Sánchez, asked the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office to rescind its request, according to La República. Rodríguez Monteza excused himself from continuing to head the investigation, according to a statement on the public prosecutor’s Twitter account. One of the fundamental missions of a supreme prosecutor is to guard human rights, among which is the right to information.” “I will not deliver the information in three, thirty or 300 days.” - IDL-Reporteros’ Gorritiīut on July 15 the investigation had been called off. Journalist Gustavo Gorriti, director of IDL-Reporteros (a long-time GIJN member), was defiant: “I will not deliver (the information requested) in three, thirty or 300 days. If the sources were not revealed, the notification indicated, the journalists would be prosecuted for the crime of resistance or disobedience of authority, El Comercio reported.
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The most recent was on July 12, when the prosecutor Víctor Raúl Rodríguez Monteza, head of Supreme Prosecutor’s Office for Internal Oversight, gave a three-day ultimatum to IDL-Reporters to reveal its sources and deliver full audio of telephone wiretapping recordings they received that were the subject of the journalistic report “Corte y Corrupción” (Court and Corruption), published on July 7. Peruvian investigative journalism site IDL-Reporteros received three requests this month from judicial and legislative authorities to reveal its journalistic sources after publishing a report revealing alleged acts of corruption in the Peruvian judicial system. #PressFreedom: A vigil was held in solidarity with IDL-Reporteros in Lima, Peru on July 18, 2018. Global Investigative Journalism Network. Global Investigative Journalism Network.
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