Feb. 10 (IPYS/IFEX).─ On 7 February 2012, Oscar David Rodríguez Martínez, a writer for the newspaper "El Sol de los Andes" in Huancayo, was attacked by two individuals who took his documents and his cell phone. The journalist believes the attack is connected to his reports about a group of police officers who are being prosecuted for their alleged connection to criminal mafias. Two of the officers have filed lawsuits against him. The incident took place in the Junín region of central Peru.
The journalist told IPYS that as he was waiting at a bus stop to go back home after work, one of his attackers distracted him while the other took his belongings, which were in a belt pack he had tied to his waist. Rodríguez stated that he had never before been the victim of a robbery and that this one seemed suspicious.
The journalist has been the victim of attacks and harassment since 25 November 2011 when he started publishing the reports about the four police officers ...
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