{"id":10471,"date":"2012-12-14T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2012-12-14T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:18:46","slug":"peru-decree-restricts-national-security-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/2012\/12\/peru-decree-restricts-national-security-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru Decree Restricts National Security Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Peru Dec. 7 classified all information related to national security and defense as a state secret, also setting 15 years in prison as the punishment for violators.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Silvia Hiquera \u00a0on the <a href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/en\/blog\">blog<\/a> of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (<a href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/es\/blog\/00-12306-corte-de-el-salvador-declara-inconstitucional-intento-del-presidente-para-restringir-a\" class=\"broken_link\">Spanish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/pt-br\/blog\/00-12369-organizacao-critica-lei-que-torna-secretas-para-sempre-informacoes-sobre-seguranca-e-d\" class=\"broken_link\">Portuguese<\/a>) says the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) called the change a \u201cserious attack\u201d on the Transparency and Information Access Law.<\/p>\n<p>IPYS&#8217; attorney, Roberto Pereira said that &#8220;this is a mistake that throws us back to the Fujimori era, in which everything was classified and nothing could be known,&#8221; reported the daily <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larepublica.pe\/12-12-2012\/segun-ipys-decreto-legislativo-1129-vulnera-acceso-la-informacion\" target=\"_blank\">La Rep\u00fablica. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The change is to the legislative decree that regulates the National Defense System. (See the decree amendment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elperuano.pe\/PublicacionNLB\/normaslegales\/wfrmNormasLista.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> (in Spanish) on page 480165.)<\/p>\n<p>Some of the country&#8217;s legislators have called the decree unconstitutional and a committee is expected to examine the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t enact laws against journalism,&#8221; congressman Luis Iberico told Per\u00fa 21, the Knight report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Peru Dec. 7 classified all information related to national security and defense as a state secret, also setting 15 years in prison as the punishment for violators. A report by Silvia Hiquera \u00a0on the blog of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (Spanish and Portuguese) says the Institute for Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[797],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E8o3-2IT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10474,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}