Venezuelan Journalists Blast Colleague’s Arrest

[naaman fletcher]

CARACAS – Venezuela’s main journalists association on Tuesday rejected a judge’s decision to censor newsweekly 6to Poder and order one of its staff arrested.

CNP said in a communique that “the closure” of the publication and the arrest of Dinorah Giron are a “clear demonstration of abuse of power ... (and) give evidence of a systematic criminalization and persecution of the media that maintain a critical line about the government” of President Hugo Chavez.

A Caracas court prohibited the “publication and distribution by any means” of the weekly, which in its latest edition published a photo montage with public officials dressed as cabaret dancers and which on Sunday led to the arrest of editor Giron.

The notification of the prohibition, issued by Judge Denisse Bocanegra, was delivered on Monday to the weekly’s offices, but it bears Saturday’s date.

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Only filthy, rotten, fascists jail journalists like this.