Caracas.- At least 10 violations to the right to freedom of expression were registered in Venezuela in July, a “month marked by harassment and acts of censorship by officials and state agencies,” said the newspaper this Saturday. Public Space NGO.
According to a press release from the organization, journalists and the media “were the main victims of violations of freedom of expression” last month.
He also assured that these ten violations “were perpetrated by three institutions of the State, two civil servants and a media manager”.
Among the victims, he continued, “there are three media outlets, two journalists/reporters and one individual”, who is an “indigenous citizen”, who “was intimidated by a military officer and forced to apologize (…) for a complaint he made about the burning of some equipment” used for “illegal mining in Amazonas state (south).
Public space He also mentioned that, in a protest by the LGBTI population in front of the headquarters of the Prosecutor’s Office, in Caracas, “police officials photographed and intimidated activists”, who rejected the recent “arbitrary detention, judicial persecution and exposure of 33 men» deprived of liberty in a gay bar in the north of Venezuela.
According to a report from the NGO, at least 217 violations of freedom of expression were registered in the Caribbean nation during the first half of 2023, an average of 1.2 attacks a day against the exercise of journalism or the right to protest.
In 2022 they were registered 227 violations of freedom of expression, a decrease of 7% about 2021, according to the organization. EFE
