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  "url": "https://cpj.org/1999/06/peru-cpj-protests-arrest-of-former-television-stat/",
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  "title": "Peru: CPJ protests arrest of former television station shareholder",
  "publisher": "Committee to Protect Journalists",
  "published_on": "1999-06",
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  "claims": [
    {
      "id": 760,
      "statement": "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.",
      "status": "current"
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    {
      "id": 761,
      "statement": "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.",
      "status": "current"
    },
    {
      "id": 762,
      "statement": "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.",
      "status": "current"
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    {
      "id": 763,
      "statement": "Ivcher went into exile in the United States and Israel.",
      "status": "current"
    },
    {
      "id": 764,
      "statement": "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.",
      "status": "current"
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    {
      "slug": "1997-pe-ivcher-stripped-of-citizenship",
      "title": "Peru strips television station owner Baruch Ivcher of his citizenship after critical reporting"
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