(18 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima, Peru – 17 October 2024
1. Gerónimo López, General Secretary of Peru Workers’ General Union, marching alongside workers with a banner reading (Spanish) "Against common and organized crime."
2. Protesters wearing red shirts marching
3. Various of riot police
4. Various of Indigenous people marching
5. People marching, raising signs of Peru’s teachers’ union
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Geronimo López, General Secretary of Peru Workers’ General Union:
"Today the Peru Workers’ General Union (CGTP) has called for a national mobilisation throughout the country and is calling upon its members, firstly to demand that Congress repeal Law 32108. It shields corrupt politicians in Congress and in the political parties. It also facilitates greater crimes against humanity, through organised gangs that carry out hired killings, extortion."
7. Trade union leaders marching with banner
8. Anti-riot police
9. People in protest
10. Riot police on the march marching alongside protest
11. Various of demonstrators
12. Protest arriving at Congress
STORYLINE:
Thousands of workers, teachers and Indigenous people marched in Lima on Thursday for a second day of strikes to demand a salary raise and for a crackdown on crime and corruption.
Union leaders say their demands reflect commitments made by President Dina Boluarte’s government.
Hundreds of police in riot gear marched alongside the protest with no reports of confrontations or violence.
The march ended at the Congress doors, where union leaders delivered their demands to lawmakers.
Geronimo Lopez, the General Secretary of Peru Workers’ General, expressed his discontent with a recently approved law that requires police to raid properties only in the presence of a public defendant.
He said the law shields corrupt politicians and can facilitate more serious organised crime.
AP video shot by Cesar Barreto
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