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Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation
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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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