A court in the western state of Táchira has ordered that journalist Gustavo Azócar should remain in custody despite ordering the annulment of a criminal case against him. He is the only journalist currently in prison in Venezuela Reporters Without Borders said it feared that the journalist was being hounded for his critical stance towards the [...]
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Reporters Without Borders notes the rapid progress that has been made in the investigation into an attack on 12 journalists employed by the privately-owned Cadena Capriles press group on 13 August. The employee of a parastatal foundation was arrested two days later and the prosecutor general’s office said nine other people were being sought on [...]
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Reporters Without Borders vigorously condemns the massive closure of broadcast media on allegedly “administrative grounds.” The government announced yesterday that it was withdrawing the licences of a total of 34 radio and TV stations, 13 of which already stopped broadcasting yesterday. “In any country that respects the rule of law, a broadcast media suspected of [...]
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Reporters Without Borders today warned of the dangers of legal changes announced by the government in the past few weeks with the sole aim of punishing media taking an editorial stance contrary to government aims. Privately-owned news channelGlobovisión, which is already facing five separate proceedings threatening its terrestrial broadcasts is now at risk of even more [...]
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Reporters Without Borders fears that the Caracas-based TV broadcaster Globovisión could be stripped of its terrestrial broadcast frequency as a result of proceedings initiated against the station on 16 June and a supreme court ruling two days later that the station could be convicted by a criminal prosecution, a legal prerequisite for the withdrawal of its [...]
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