Kidnapping of Virginia Pelaez Ocampo and Percy Raborg Pfenning by the MRTA
MRTA kidnaps Channel 2 journalists to broadcast message about torture of detainees in Cusco
Members of the MRTA kidnapped reporter Virginia Pelaez Ocampo and cameraman Percy Raborg Pfenning of Channel 2 as they were leaving their workplace in Miraflores. The kidnappers forced them to record and broadcast a message denouncing alleged mistreatment and torture of MRTA comrades detained in Cusco. They were released the following day in the vicinity of Jorge Chavez Airport after transmitting the message. The objective was political propaganda and dissemination of denunciations of human rights violations.