Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – Since 8 November 2005, journalists covering the news at the Palacio de Justicia in Caracas, the main courthouse and seat of the judiciary, are no longer allowed to walk around the review courts, although until now, any citizen could do so freely. They have also been prohibited from taking photographs anywhere on the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 2 November 2005, broadcaster and lawyer Carlos Gibson was sentenced to eleven months in prison for allegedly repeatedly committing libel and slander in Ciudad Guayana, state of Bolívar, southern Venezuela. As this is the first time he has been convicted, he was put on probation and has to report to the bailiff’s […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 7 November 2005, a number of journalists who were covering a press conference at the Palacio de Justicia in Caracas, the main courthouse and seat of the judiciary, were prevented from doing their jobs. Belkys Cedeño, head of the Caracas Metropolitan Area Criminal Justice Circuit, ordered that the electricity supply to the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 6 November 2005, a group of taxi drivers beat up reporters Diego Rojas Latorre and Ariana Rojas Latorre who work for Antena Norte Channel 35, after the journalists videotaped one of the drivers being detained by the police. The incident occurred outside the Gran Chimú Coliseum in Trujillo, a […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 1 November 2005, David Ludovic, writer of the “El Nacional” newspaper column “A las puertas de Palacio” (“At the palace’s door”), was pressured by the president’s security personnel into handing over a tape of interviews done adjacent to the White Palace (Palacio Blanco, a building in front of the Miraflores presidential palace […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 26 October 2005, a group of journalists were insulted and threatened by demonstrators who allegedly were students of the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical University (Universidad Pedagogica Experimental Libertador, UPEL). The journalists were covering a demonstration outside the Aragua state governor’s offices, in the city of Maracay, some 96 km from Caracas. “El Carabobeño” […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 28 October 2005, a team of reporters for the newspaper “El Siglo” in the state of Aragua, 99 km from Caracas, was threatened and assaulted by a group of demonstrators who detained them for more than five hours in an attempt to force the Aragua governor Didalco Bolivar to hand over the […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 28 October 2005, a team of journalists for the regional paper “Notitarde” was assaulted by students from the University of Carabobo (UC) in the state of the same name, 200 km from Caracas. The team had been sent to the area to verify the presence of explosive devices which had allegedly been […]