Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 December 2005, journalist Rosemberg Valverde and her assistant José Carlos Ponce de León, both of Frecuencia Latina television, were assaulted when attempting to interview the mother of a murdered man alleged to have been a hired killer. During the assault, the journalists’ video camera was stolen. The incident took place in […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 16 December 2005, photojournalist Eduardo Alves and editor Sérgio Marques were briefly detained by military police in Franca, São Paulo, after arguing with soldiers over their right to take photographs in the city’s central plaza. Both men work for the daily newspaper “Comércio de Franca.” The incident began when Alves took a […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 13 December 2005, journalist Emy Martínez and photojournalist Johan Rojas, of the regional newspaper “El Nuevo Día”, were threatened by the governor of the eastern state of Anzoátegui, Tarek William Saab, during the inauguration of a new street in Barcelona, the state capital. The governor invited the media to the event. However, […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 28 November 2005, Carlos Colmenárez, a National Guard general and area director for security and public order for the state of Lara, western Venezuela, confiscated “El Impulso” newspaper reporter Enmanuele Sorge’s camera, while the journalist was covering an impromptu meeting between Lara Governor Luis Reyes Reyes and a group of coffee growers. […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 November 2005, Attorney General Bruno Acioly announced his intention to file a new request at the beginning of December for the list of telephone calls made and received by four journalists. In June, Acioly and his colleague Raquel Branquinho had asked the Tenth Federal Court (Decima Sala Federal de Justicia) in […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 23 November 2005, the management of “Antonio Maria Pineda” Central Hospital denied access to the premises to journalist Liza Canelón of the newspaper “El Impulso”, in the central-west state of Lara, claiming that entry to the hospital was forbidden. Canelón went to the hospital to make enquiries about an alleged case of […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 24 November 2005, Helen Michelet, a correspondent for “A Estância” newspaper and a member of an opposition politician’s press department , in the city of Guarujá, Sao Paulo state, was assaulted during a public meeting led by Mayor Farid Madi. Michelet tried to ask the mayor some questions but he responded by […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 November 2005, a news crew from the television news channel Globovisión, led by journalist Gabriela Matute, was insulted and intimidated by supporters of President Hugo Chávez’s government, who were gathered outside the Attorney General’s Office. The reporters were at the scene to cover a demonstration by the Primero Justicia opposition party. […]