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Venezuela: US journalist reportedly arrested in early-morning raid
Last edited Wed Mar 6, 2019, 09:33 PM - Edit history (1)
UPDATE: Venezuela will deport a U.S. freelance journalist who was detained earlier Wednesday. His assistant was also released. (Washington Post)
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Source: The Guardian
Venezuela: US journalist reportedly arrested in early-morning raid
• Freelancer Cody Weddle out of contact since 8am, reports say
• Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and crew detained last week
Joe Parkin Daniels
Wed 6 Mar 2019 17.13 GMT Last modified on Wed 6 Mar 2019 17.18 GMT
Authorities in Venezuela have reportedly arrested a US freelance journalist after an early morning raid on his Caracas home by the country’s feared military counter-intelligence agency.
Cody Weddle, who freelances for the Miami Herald, the Daily Telegraph and ABC News, has been out of contact since 8am when the raid took place and his equipment was confiscated, according to a press workers’ union in Venezuela.
Weddle is the latest in a string of foreign journalists to be detained in Venezuela. Last week Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and his crew were held while interviewing the country’s embattled president Nicolás Maduro. They were released and deported shortly afterwards, while their equipment – including the recordings of the curtailed interview – were kept by authorities.
Maduro, who is fending off mounting international pressure to cede power to the opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó, detained two French journalists in January who were filming outside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Numerous local journalists have been harassed in recent years.
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• Freelancer Cody Weddle out of contact since 8am, reports say
• Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and crew detained last week
Joe Parkin Daniels
Wed 6 Mar 2019 17.13 GMT Last modified on Wed 6 Mar 2019 17.18 GMT
Authorities in Venezuela have reportedly arrested a US freelance journalist after an early morning raid on his Caracas home by the country’s feared military counter-intelligence agency.
Cody Weddle, who freelances for the Miami Herald, the Daily Telegraph and ABC News, has been out of contact since 8am when the raid took place and his equipment was confiscated, according to a press workers’ union in Venezuela.
Weddle is the latest in a string of foreign journalists to be detained in Venezuela. Last week Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and his crew were held while interviewing the country’s embattled president Nicolás Maduro. They were released and deported shortly afterwards, while their equipment – including the recordings of the curtailed interview – were kept by authorities.
Maduro, who is fending off mounting international pressure to cede power to the opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó, detained two French journalists in January who were filming outside the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Numerous local journalists have been harassed in recent years.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/06/venezuela-journalist-cody-weddle-reports-caracas
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