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Safety of journalists at risk in post-election clashes

Published on 16 April 2013Read

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Open letter

Presidential candidates urged to commit to promoting pluralism

Published on 2 April 2013Read

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Proposed law on international cooperation needs more discussion

Local, national and international NGOs are extremely concerned about an international cooperation bill that the National Assembly is due to begin (...)

Published on 2 December 2010 Read

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Blow against impunity offset by continuing censorship of two dailies

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the news that Walid Makled, a member of a powerful business family in the central state of Carabobo and the (...)

Published on 23 August 2010 Read

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Hugo Chávez’s government tightens its grip on the media

President Hugo Chávez announced on 20 July that his government is about to acquire a majority stake in Globovisión, a privately-owned TV station (...)

Published on 23 July 2010 Read

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Twitter users formally charged, banned from posting messages

Two Twitter users who were arrested on 8 July, Luis Enrique Acosta and Carmen Cecilia Nares, appeared yesterday before a court in the (...)

Published on 13 July 2010 Read

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Libel suit by mayor results in nearly four-year ban on newspaper columnist

A court in Valencia, the capital of the northern state of Carabobo, has banned columnist Francisco Pérez of the local daily El Carabobeño from (...)

Published on 14 June 2010 Read

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Proceedings initiated against Noticiero Digital website again at president’s behest

The prosecutor-general’s office yesterday initiated proceedings against the Noticiero Digital news website on suspicion of “attacking (...)

Published on 9 June 2010 Read

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First suspect convicted of journalist Orel Sambrano’s murder

The leading suspect in the murder of journalist Orel Sambrano, former police officer Rafael Segundo Pérez, was sentenced on 19 May to 25 years in (...)

Published on 21 May 2010 Read

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Provincial journalist granted conditional release after getting jail sentence

Gustavo Azócar Alcalá, a journalist based in the western state of Táchira who had been detained since 9 July 2009, was sentenced to two and a half (...)

Published on 1 April 2010 Read