By EFE
04 Aug 2024, 13:36 PM EDT
Ecuadorian digital media LaDataEc denounced on Saturday the arrest by Nicolás Maduro’s regime of journalist Dayana Krays, who was in Caracas covering the rally called by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
“Urgent! La Data journalist was detained by the Maduro regime!” she posted on her social media account X.
She said that Krays “was detained by agents of Nicolás Maduro, after going to her home after finishing covering the protests against electoral fraud in Venezuela.”
“In the last 72 hours, Venezuelan authorities have arrested political activists and protesters and expelled journalists for ‘fomenting hatred,'” he added, before demanding “respect for their human rights.”
For its part, the Association of Venezuelan Journalists in Ecuador (APEVE) rejected the arrest of Krays, a fact that it also blamed on the authorities “of the Nicolás Maduro regime.”
Krays was arrested when she was returning to her residence after carrying out her work of reporting on the mobilization called by Machado, APEVE reiterated in a statement.
He stressed that “the exercise of the Right to Information and Freedom of Expression are rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela approved in 1999.”
The practice of journalism “obliges us to provide information in a ‘truthful and timely’ manner, and this cannot be curtailed by a regime that seeks to ‘silence’ Venezuelan society and social networks so that the truth about what is happening in Venezuelan territory is not known,” the document states.
As the National College of Journalists of Venezuela has pointed out and denounced, he stressed, the practice of journalism “is a right and is enshrined in the constitution and laws.”
“Reporting is not a crime,” concluded APEVE, which called a press conference in Quito on Friday to raise awareness about the situation in Venezuela and the effects on the population, as well as on neighboring countries.
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