According to the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP), five journalists and photojournalists have been imprisoned since July 29, when protests against the results of the presidential election broke out across the country.
The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Pedro Vaca, on Tuesday, August 6, rejected the arrests of several journalists and the “persecution of critical voices” in a post-electoral context in Venezuela.
In a publication On his account on the social network X, he called for the immediate release of the Venezuelan journalists detained to date, “to the end of censorship and respect for freedom of expression.”
The rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) pointed out that the cThe international community “must support the work of the press that reports on the human rights crisis in the country.”
#Venezuela🇻🇪I reject the arrests of journalists and the persecution of critical voices.
I call for his immediate release, an end to censorship and respect for #FreedomOfExpression.
The international community must support the work of the press that reports on the human rights crisis in the country. https://t.co/XF2VMziMcY— Pedro Vaca V. (@PVacaV) August 6, 2024
According to the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP), five journalists and photojournalists have been imprisoned since July 29, when protests against the results of the presidential election broke out across the country.
They are Yousner Alvarado, arrested on July 29 and accused of terrorism crimes in Barinas; cameraman Paúl León, arrested on July 30 in Valera, capital of Trujillo state; photojournalist Deysi Peña, arrested in Carrizal, Miranda state, on August 2 and who has not been brought before a court; journalist and leader of Voluntad Popular Roland Carreño, detained at Sebin Helicoide; and journalist and political activist José Gabriel Camero, arrested on August 3 and who has also not been brought before a court.
This year, journalists Gabriel González, Luis López and Carlos Julio Rojas have also been arrested, all of them related to political events. The SNTP also recalled that Ramón Centeno has been under arrest for three years, for alleged crimes of influence peddling, criminal association and usurpation of functions.
For its part, the Press and Society Institute, Venezuela chapter, documented 79 violations of press freedom in just one week. 62 of them were related to coverage of elections or demonstrations.
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