[Excerpt translation from Spanish to English provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

"Portable assaults director of documentary on environmental impact of Shougang mining company" - March 2, 2020

...Outside the premises of the Human Rights Commission of Ica (Codehica), where the documentary "Between Iron and Sea" was screened on February 27, a laptop verbally assaulted the director Maga Zevallos and the producer Hyperactiva... About twenty demonstrators came with posters that seemed to have been written by only one person... "Marcona advances, no one with lies stops it", "Marcona is not contaminated, Hyperactiva lies", "Hyperactiva, Marcona repudiates you". These are some of the messages repeated by the protesters... The documentary deals with the relationship between the population, mining and the authorities in the case of Marcona, a district of Ica where the mining company Shougang Hierro Perú has been operating for 27 years. Among other issues, it deals with labour conflicts between the company and its workers, pollution in the district, and the capacity of fishing and tourism as development alternatives... On the other hand, Zevallos indicates that a Facebook page called Marcona is on the same track and has begun a smear campaign against the documentary. The page created a few days before the premiere of "Entre el hierro y el mar", states that the Hyperactiva production company "can kill the fishing and development of Marcona". It also denies that the water or beaches in the district are contaminated...