Chilevisión: Press Union denounces retention of a team of communicators for 7 hours

According to the SNTPthey confiscated their phones from those detained, demanded their passwords, reviewed their WhatsApp and galleries, and deleted photos and videos recorded outside Venezuela.

The union indicated that it spoke with the journalist Roberto Coxwho reported that they were transferred to a barracks and “incommunicado“, a fact that for the SNTP is part of a “pattern of harassment against journalistic work in Venezuela, especially in border and high surveillance areas”.

“The arbitrary search of telephones, the elimination of material and prolonged incommunication violate international standards of press freedom and safety of journalists“added the union in its X account.

Last November, the NGO Press and Society Institute (Ipys) from Venezuela said that in the country “informing is still a penalized task” and for this reason he reiterated his call to the authorities to investigate what he considered as “crimes against journalists“, as well as “punish those responsible” y “guarantee” that “these violations” do not repeat themselves.