Julio Vasquez, one of my journalist friends, was kidnapped and tortured by Peruvian police and private security guards. His captors sprayed him with teargas, tied a sack around his head and upper body, threatened to throw him off a cliff and taunted him with descriptions of the many ways they could end his life.
When Julio was released 72 hours later, his body was a mass of angry burns, cuts and bruises. Shortly afterwards, he was charged with a series of crimes under Peru’s anti-terrorism legislation.
