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Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR716.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 13/01/2010
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
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 Bagua#s San Humberto prison.
#This is the second case...
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