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Peru: CPJ protests arrest of former television station shareholder
Committee to Protect Journalists, 1999-06
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- 2026-09-26
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- Peru strips television station owner Baruch Ivcher of his citizenship after critical reporting
- Claim 760: An associate of Ivcher's, Sotelo, was alleged to have fraudulently transferred shares of Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2 from Ivcher, the majority shareholder, to Ivcher's four daughters in 1997.
- Claim 761: In July 1997, Ivcher, who was born in Israel, had his adopted Peruvian citizenship revoked and was thereby made ineligible to own a television station under Peruvian law.
- Claim 762: CPJ told President Fujimori it believed the citizenship revocation was taken in direct reprisal for Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2's investigative reports, including stories that implicated Peru's intelligence services in wiretapping journalists and members of the opposition.
- Claim 763: Ivcher went into exile in the United States and Israel.
- Claim 764: The charges against Ivcher's associate Sotelo were filed by Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2's former minority owners, brothers Mendel and Samuel Winter, who came to exercise majority control over the station.
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