IAPA condemns detention of Brazilian journalist in Venezuela Journalist Rodrigo Lopes, special envoy to Caracas by Brazil's Grupo RBS, was detained on Friday (January 25) and held incommunicado at a military base next to Miraflores Palace for two hours.
IAPA condemned detention of Cuban journalist Ricardo Fernández Izaguirre was detained for more than 24 hours.
IAPA demands immediate release of Cuban journalist Ricardo Fernández Condemned the detention by the Cuban State Security of Ricardo Fernández Izaguirre, a stringer of the portal 14ymedio.
Hold in Venezuela forum on freedom of expression in the Americas Miami (September 14, 2009)Former President of Bolivia, Carlos Mesa, and of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, and former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda will address the Emergency Forum on Freedom of Expression which will review the major problems and current issues facing the practice of journalism in the Western Hemisphere in Venezuela this Friday, Sept. 18. Seventeen world and national press organizations are sponsoring the event.
