(27 Jan 2023)

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RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lima - 26 January 2023
1. Various of anti-riot police firing tear gas canisters blocking the protest path, protesters throwing rocks and bottles
HEADLINE: Human rights group slams crackdown on Peru protesters

2. Various of protesters running away from tear gas
ANNOTATION: A human rights organization in Lima has denounced the Peruvian government's handling of ongoing, deadly protests.

3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mar Perez, researcher at the Human Rights National Coordination:
"In the history of democracy in Peru we have not lived through these levels of repression such as the ones we are experiencing now.”

4. Photographs of people killed during protests
ANNOTATION: At least 57 people have died during the last seven weeks of demonstrations across the country.

5. Various of police firing tear gas, protesters
ANNOTATION: The organization accused the police and army of using tear gas, metal pellets, glass marbles and bullets against demonstrators.
ANNOTATION: The protests erupted when President Dina Boluarte took office from Pedro Castillo who was impeached and imprisoned for trying to dissolve Congress.

6. Woman standing with sign reading (Spanish): "Resign Dina (Boluarte), murderer."
7. Various of demonstrators blocking street with concrete blocks
ANNOTATION: Boluarte has called for a truce and blamed protesters for the political violence that has engulfed the South American nation.

8. Woman with head injury being treated by emergency services workers
STORYLINE:
A human rights organization in Lima has denounced the Peruvian government's handling of ongoing, deadly protests.

At least 57 people have died during the last seven weeks of demonstrations across the country.

The organization accused the police and army of using tear gas, metal pellets, glass marbles and bullets against demonstrators.

The protests erupted when President Dina Boluarte took office from Pedro Castillo who was impeached and imprisoned for trying to dissolve Congress.

Boluarte has called for a truce and blamed protesters for the political violence that has engulfed the South American nation.

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