Resolution of the Midyear Meeting
Bridgetown, Barbados
April 4 - 7, 2014
WHEREAS
on September 6, 2011 journalist Pedro Flores Silva of Canal 6 de Televisión in Casma, Ancash province, was the victim of an attack carried out by a hitman and died from his wounds two days later
WHEREAS
on August 29, 2013 National Criminal Court Judge Janett Mónica Lastra Ramírez opened criminal proceedings against Marco Antonio Rivero Huertas, mayor of the Comandante Noel Municipal District in Casma province, as instigator, Bladimir Anderson Castillo Castro and Emilio José Ciriaco Agreda as perpetrators, and José Félix Ferreyra Carbajal, city manager, Antonio Azalde Lluen, city legal counsel, and Miguel Humberto Becerra Pérez, the mayor's father-in-law, as prime accomplices in the first degree murder of journalist Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva
WHEREAS
on February 28, 2014 the National Criminal Court judge, after concluding the probable cause proceedings, sent the case file concerning Flores Silva's murder to the Peruvian Attorney General's Office for it to issue its opinion. However, the journalist's defense asked for an extension in the proceedings due to the fact that not all the inquiries needed to clarify the matter had been addressed
WHEREAS
the perpetrators of the murder of Alberto Rivera Fernández, committed on October 21, 2004, while he was working at Radio Frecuencia Oriental in Pucallpa, were convicted, but not the alleged masterminds
WHEREAS
on November 21, 2013 the Supreme Court's Transitory Criminal Court threw out the Appeal for Annulment filed against the acquittal in May 2012 of Luis Valdez Villacorta, former mayor of Coronel Portillo in Ucayali province, and Solio Ramírez Garay, former Coronel Portillo city manager, as alleged masterminds of the murder of journalist Alberto Rivera Fernández in reprisal for his denunciations of drug and land trafficking in that northeastern region of the country; two Supreme Court judges voted in favor of upholding the acquittal, and three that it be overturned and that a new oral hearing be held; however, for the Court to rule on the Appeal for Annulment four votes were needed, so another Supreme Court judge will be called upon to resolve the matter
THE IAPA RESOLVES
to ask the Supreme Court judges belonging to the Supreme Court's Transitory Criminal Court that they, within the framework of the law, resolve promptly the Appeal for Annulment filed against the ruling that on May 2012 acquitted the alleged masterminds of the murder of journalist Alberto Rivera Fernández, with the objective of this crime not continuing to go unpunished
to ask National Criminal Court Judge Janett Mónica Lastra Ramírez to proceed with all the necessary inquiries that the case merits, with the objective of punishing those responsible for the murder of journalist Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva.
