Venezuela - Travel ban is now part of regime's harassment of independent media

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the increased pressure that the Venezuelan authorities are putting on the country's few independent news media by using their control of the judicial apparatus and access to resources. On 5 May, Judge Maria Eugenia Núñez banned 22 editors and executives of three independent media outlets – the newspapers Tal Cual and El Nacional and the news website La Patilla – from leaving the country and ordered them to appear before the court once a week. Her decision was (...)

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