Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela

More than 100 groups and individuals worldwide call on Egyptian President el-Sisi to remove the unjust sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists.

Horacio Siciliano, a photojournalist with Reporte Confidencial, was pepper-sprayed in the face by a National Bolivarian Police officer when he was trying to cover the arrest of a young man in Caracas.

According to an El Nacional journalist, the attack took place a few metres away from a National Bolivarian Guard contingent, but no officer made an effort to stop or disperse the attack.

On April 21st, 2014, Juan Carlos Hernández, a reporter of El Carabobeño, a privately owned paper, was assaulted by a police officer of the regional state security corps of Carabobo state, when he was covering news in the El Trigal sector, to the northwest of the city of Valencia.

On April 14, 2014, journalist Nairobi Pinto, head of the correspondents department at Globovisión, was released by her captors in Cúa, the capital of Urdaneta municipality in Miranda state, at close to 1 a.m. after the communicator had been kidnapped for over one week.

Professor Vladimir Kislinger believes that the harassment is a result of his work as an activist and his open support for the young university students who have been protesting in the nation’s streets.

On 6 April 2014, Nairobi Pinto, a chief correspondent for Globovisión, was kidnapped by two armed people wearing hoods. They forced the journalist into a blue Chevy vehicle outside the building she lives in, in Los Chaguaramos, Caracas.

In an attempt to hide the destructive violence of anti-government protests that took place on 12 February 2014, the Maduro administration has threatened media outlets who dare to veer from the official line, taking at least one off the air.