UN asked to intercede in arrests of foreign journalists, censorship in Venezuela

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the United Nations secretary-general to intercede as quickly as possible with President Nicolás Maduro following the arrests of eight foreign journalists since 25 January and their subsequent illegal detention. The foreign journalists, who had come to cover anti-Maduro demonstrations in Venezuela’s largest cities, were arrested by the police, the General Directorate for Military Counter-Intelligence (DGC

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