Venezuela: Free journalist arrested before traveling to the US

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Venezuelan journalist Isnardo Bravo was held for nine hours by authorities in his country after being detained at the Simón Bolívar international airport in Caracas when he was about to board a US vacation flight. with your youngest daughter.

Venezuelan journalist Isnardo Bravo, released in Caracas, after being held for more than eight hours, thanked on Twitter those who supported him after he was arrested at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in the capital, when he was going to board a flight on vacation. to the United States with her 11-year-old daughter.

Bravo, who works with VPI TV, a well-known journalist with more than 25 years of experience in Venezuela, has been critical of the government. Since June 2017, he has participated in a radio news program called "Dimes y Diretes", on the po[CENSORED]r radio station La Romántica 88.9. According to the media after being released, the communicator said that he had not been treated abusively during his detention and that the interrogation he had had to do with Óscar Pérez, the rebel policeman of the Venezuelan police who revolted against the government in June of 2017 and then he was shot dead next to six of his companions when the security forces discovered where he was hiding.

The journalist, who had recently renewed his passport, was informed by the authorities before addressing that he was banned from leaving the country since February, and he was retained the document. The girl was handed over to the mother who had gone to leave them at the airport. Isnardo Bravo was detained in the office of the Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Immigration (Saime), in the airport and then in the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) in Boleíta, Sucre municipality in Miranda state. The arrest of the communicator was widely condemned in social networks. The National Union of Workers of the Press (SNTP), which denounced the arrest of Isnardo Bravo, announced his release accompanied by a video with another part of the statements of the communicator once he was released.

SNTP says that before being released, Bravo had to "sign a bond by which he is denied the possibility of giving any statement or writing in social media and networks about the case of Oscar Óscar Pérez" It also indicates that the journalist "has no additional summons" and that "all of his belongings were returned to him, including his passport, his daughter's, his luggage and his telephone." According to the Colombian television station NTN24, Bravo's detention occurs amid constant complaints from the Venezuelan journalists union, which insists on pointing out attacks on freedom of expression in the country.

 

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