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Covid-19Verbal attack or intimidation by authoritiesVerbal, online or physical attack

Reporter and cameraman initmidated by security officials

20.08.2020

Date:
20.08.2020
Number of cases:
2
Regions/Countries:
Americas: Venezuela
Alert types:
Verbal, online or physical attack: Verbal attack or intimidation by authorities

Officers of Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) intimidated journalist Marthy Barbera and cameraman David Betancourt of the news broadcaster Venezolanos por la Información (VPI TV ) while they were trying to cover a protest by medical workers in the Hospital Alfredo Van Grieken in Coro.

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