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Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation Sources News Release http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR716.htm Publisher:  Reporters without Borders Date Written:  13/01/10 Year Published:  2010   Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter 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... To read the full release go to http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR716.htm Topics Defamation Freedom of the Press Peru Press Freedom

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