(IPYS/IFEX) – On 31 October 2004, reporters for the state television station Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) were attacked while covering elections to designate local authorities (mayors and governors). The television crew, headed by journalist Siary Rodríguez, was outside a voting centre at Champagnat school in Caurimare district, eastern Caracas, when they were violently attacked by […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 31 October 2004, reporters for the state television station Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) were attacked while covering elections to designate local authorities (mayors and governors). The television crew, headed by journalist Siary Rodríguez, was outside a voting centre at Champagnat school in Caurimare district, eastern Caracas, when they were violently attacked by a group of citizens.
Journalists from other media outlets who were reporting at the same voting centre and officers from Plan República, the military unit in charge of transporting electoral material and safeguarding the voting centers, had to quickly intercede in order to protect the VTV reporters and avoid further damages.
