Arbitrary detentions and the cancellation and withholding of
passports belonging to two high-profile Venezuelan journalists helped to mark
September as another month in a long period of aggressions against the press in
the country. Twenty-five journalists have been arbitrarily detained in 2018,
according to Mariengracia Chirinos of Venezuela’s Press and Society Institute
(IPYS, for its initials in Spanish). “Most of them [occurred] by police and
military officers during the coverage of protests or community affairs,”
Chirinos told the Knight Center. More… 
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Venezuelan journalists suffer arbitrary detentions and problems with passports
Arbitrary detentions and the cancellation and withholding of
passports belonging to two high-profile Venezuelan journalists helped to mark
September as another month in a long period of aggressions against the press in
the country. Twenty-five journalists have been arbitrarily detained in 2018,
according to Mariengracia Chirinos of Venezuela’s Press and Society Institute
(IPYS, for its initials in Spanish). “Most of them [occurred] by police and
military officers during the coverage of protests or community affairs,”
Chirinos told the Knight Center. More… 
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