Segundo Carrascal Carrasco, editor of the Peruvian weekly Nor Oriente, was released by the supreme court in Lima, after spending more than five months in prison for defamation.
In January, he was sentenced to a year in prison for a series of articles written in 2005 that alleged corruption in a local education institute, a conviction that was sharply criticised at the time by press international press watchdogs.
Sources: Inter American Press Association/In Spanish: Crónica Viva
