Arrest of Dionisio Morales Perez
Dionisio Morales Pérez, president of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on May 17, 1983 in Huamanga while he was hospitalized. He was one of only three community members prosecuted for the massacre of journalists on January 26, 1983, and was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison despite the fact that his direct participation was not proven.
Dionisio Morales Pérez, president of the Uchuraccay community, was arrested on May 17, 1983 while he was hospitalized in Huamanga. He was one of only three community members detained in the judicial process for the Uchuraccay massacre of January 26, 1983, in which eight journalists and two other people died. Although his direct participation in the execution of the crime was never proven, he was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison for simple homicide in 1987, a sentence that was increased to 15 years by the Supreme Court in 1988 for aggravated homicide. The other two detainees were Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles (arrested on July 5, 1983) and Simeón Auccatoma Quispe (arrested on July 20, 1983), the latter of whom died of tuberculosis in prison in 1987.