Instituto Prensa y Sociedad de Venezuela

The District Attorney’s office summoned Diario 2001 newspaper directors after the president asked for “the most stringent punishment” for an article about irregularities in the supply of gasoline.

IFEX members call on Brazil’s Congress to promptly pass the Marco Civil bill and on President Roussef to ensure its due implementation, as a measure to protect the right of Brazilians to an Internet that is free and open to all.

Over 60 organisations signed a joint appeal to Moroccan authorities to free editor Ali Anouzla, jailed on 17 September for posting a link to an Al-Qaeda video on his news website alongside an article critical of the video.

On 23 August 2013, radio journalist Gonzalo Albano was threatened and intimidated by people who pushed him into a car and told him to “stop talking shit” on the radio.

Over 30 IFEX members write to President Rafael Correa, calling on him to submit the recently-approved Ecuadorian Communications Law to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for a Consultative Opinion.

Journalist Nelson Bocaranda is accused of being the “intellectual author” of violent events which took place nationwide expressing discontent with the election results.

The head judge at a Caracas court has issued a precautionary measure prohibiting María Lourdes Afiuni (a judge who was jailed pending a criminal suit) from speaking to the national and international media and expressing herself on social media.

Richard Sayago, a parliamentary journalist and assistant, reported that he has been followed and has received threats by unidentified persons. He presumes these incidents are linked to complaints and irregularities he presented at the national assembly after the presidential elections.