NGO IPYS Venezuela denounces 95 violations of freedom of expression in the first months of 2025

During this period, there were 18 physical and verbal attacks against journalists, media and citizens exercising their right to express themselves.

Deysi Peña was four and a half months in prison after covering, for a digital media, a protest against the results of the presidential elections of July 28 and publishing the photographs in her state of WhatsApp. She was charged with the crimes of “terrorism”, “instigating hatred” and “obstruction of the public road”. She, who was also part of the press team of an opposition-led mayor, said that although she was outraged at the moment when the w…