Committee to Protect Journalists: Investigative Journalist Paola Ugaz Faces Criminal Defamation Suit in Peru
September 23, 2020
September 23, 2020
NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news On Sept. 22:
Peruvian authorities must stop the campaign of legal harassment against journalist Paola Ugaz and take steps to reform the country's criminal defamation laws, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Yesterday, the Ninth Criminal Court of Lima held the first hearing in a criminal defamation trial for Ugaz, an investigative journalist and co-author of a 2015 book tha . . .
Peruvian authorities must stop the campaign of legal harassment against journalist Paola Ugaz and take steps to reform the country's criminal defamation laws, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Yesterday, the Ninth Criminal Court of Lima held the first hearing in a criminal defamation trial for Ugaz, an investigative journalist and co-author of a 2015 book tha . . .