IPYS counts eighteen journalists and press workers detained in Venezuela, although other organizations increase this figure to twenty-two.
The NGO Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) of Venezuela registered 130 cases of “violations of freedom of expression” in the country between January and October 2025, which, in its opinion, reflects the “sustained deterioration of the conditions for practicing journalism and the direct impact of impunity on informative work.”
Through a press release, released this Sunday, November 2, IPYS detailed that the “most common attacks” were “harassment and threats (29 cases), stigmatizing speech (19), arbitrary detentions (14), internet restrictions (33) and limitations on access to public information (15).”
“Behind each number is an attempt to silence an uncomfortable truth and discourage citizen vigilance over power,” the NGO stated.
Furthermore, IPYS assured that the “lack of judicial sanctions has consolidated a circle of impunity in which the aggressors are not prosecuted, the victims are not compensated and society becomes accustomed to silence.”
“This scenario contributes to a climate of fear and defenselessness that violates not only journalists, but also the collective right of citizens to be informed,” the note added.
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IPYS counts eighteen journalists and press workers detained in Venezuela, although other organizations increase this figure to twenty-two. In nine of these eighteen cases, according to the NGO, “there has been no official statement about their whereabouts or about the judicial proceedings opened against them.”
“These prolonged detentions, without information or procedural guarantees, form a pattern of forced disappearances and imprisonments of a political nature that seek to discipline and punish the exercise of information,” the statement warned.
For IPYS, in Venezuela “reporting continues to be a punished task” and therefore reiterated its call to the authorities to investigate what it considered to be “crimes against journalists”, as well as “punish those responsible” and “guarantee” that “these violations” are not repeated.
In 2024, the NGO documented 383 cases in which it considered there were “violations” of information guarantees in Venezuela, which represents an increase of 64.4% compared to 2023, when it totaled 233 complaints.
With information from the EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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