Attacks on the Press in 2008: Venezuela
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
12 March 2009
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“Deutsche Welle” (DW) joined the long list of international and national media that the Venezuelan government has censored in the past ten years
Since its presentation before parliament, the debate on the “Law on Control, Regulation, Performance and Financing of Non-Governmental and Related Organisations” has been stigmatising in nature, depicting civil society organisations as “enemies of the country.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for the immediately release of freelance environmental journalist Luis Alejandro Acosta. Evidence suggests that he was arrested for his journalism.