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Venezuela orders RCTV removal from cable

Venezuela’s media regulator has ordered that RCTV be removed from transmission by cable providers. RCTV’s terrestrial licence was revoked in 2007, in an act seen by many as revenge for the station’s support for a coup against President Hugo Chavez in 2002.

A Caracas court ordered the arrests of two people allegedly involved in the attacks last week that left 12 journalists hurt when they were demonstrating in favor of freedom of expression. All of the journalists who were handing out leaflets to motorists and pedestrians on a busy street in the capital are employees of the Cadena Capriles group, one of Venezuela’s biggest media companies. Read more here

Venezuelan journalists expelled from Honduras

Journalists from Telesur and Venezolano de Television (VTV) both Venezuelan state funded channels claim to have been expelled from Honduras. Four crew members were detained on the night of 11 July and although they were released early on Sunday they were not allowed to leave their hotel and claim that they were told to leave the country the following day. Honduran authorities deny that they expelled the journalists and claim that they are not censoring the press.
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