The Peruvian government's measures to fight insecurity could include chapters that affect the right to protest and freedom of expression, union organizations warned amid a climate of alert that has been established in the country.   “The Executive Branch intends to criminalize people who demonstrate in favor of the protests,” said lawyer Roberto Pereira, legal advisor to the Press and Society Institute (IPYS), a civil organization that fights for the rights of journalism.   The debate has intensified since Friday, when the Constitutional Commission of Congress approved with 18 votes to four a text that allows the judicial prosecution of "communicators" who "incite" with their information to acts of protest that lead to violence.   “For us it is clear that what we are looking for is to limit coverage as much as possible,” said the president of the National Association of Journalists (ANP), Zuliana Lainez, who recalled that previously the government of President Dina Boluarte tried to impose cuts in journalistic activity.   The opinion, which to become effective must be ratified by the full Congress, something that could potentially occur given the correlation of forces, is part of the study carried out by Parliament on a request for extraordinary legislative powers raised by the Executive to adopt measures against The insecurity.   In this request for powers, which aims to speed up the adoption of tools to confront crime, the initiative to modify the Penal Code to be able to bring journalists to court was introduced, “smuggled” in Lainez's words.   For entities such as the ANP, the IPYS and the Peruvian Press Council, with solidarity from the Inter-American Press Society, if the proposal is approved, a large area will be created in which information activity will be at the subjective discretion of those in charge of dispensing justice. .   “The dangerous thing is that the word ‘incite’ is directly linked to the word ‘call,’” Lainez stressed. Thus, a journalist who has reported on a protest in his or her media outlet could be exposed to prosecution for “incitement” if such an act degenerated into violence.   In the midst of the scandal, the Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, assured that the government does not want to impose restrictions on press freedom, but did not raise the possibility of that point being removed from the request for powers.