# Peru: CPJ protests arrest of former television station shareholder

Committee to Protect Journalists, 1999-06

- Address: https://cpj.org/1999/06/peru-cpj-protests-arrest-of-former-television-stat/
- Kind: reporting
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [Peru strips television station owner Baruch Ivcher of his citizenship after critical reporting](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1997-pe-ivcher-stripped-of-citizenship)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/760)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/761)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/762)
- [Claim 763: Ivcher went into exile in the United States and Israel.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/763)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/764)

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