Alerts | Arrest/detention under other laws

Journalist detained while reporting about Covid-19

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Security forces arbitrarily detained the journalist Yarnaldo Tovar, from the 360 Grados Internacional media, as he was making a report on the COVID-19 at the Coche Peripheral Hospital. The journalist was released that same night.

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