German journalist Billy Six was released in Venezuela after four months in detention

German journalist Billy Six was released Friday after spending four months in detention at intelligence headquarters in Caracas.but must appear in court every 15 days, an NGO and a press organization reported.

"Release of German journalist Billy Six (…) Impose measures of prudential presentation every 15 days and prohibition to declare his action in the media." We demand full freedom., published Espacio Público, an NGO that defends freedom of expression, on Twitter.

The release of the 32-year-old journalist occurred after the "your presentation public"said the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP), described as "arbitrary", the arrest took place on 17 November.

Six had started a hunger strike in December, but the German Embbady reported that he had raised it while waiting for diplomatic efforts.

The journalist then published a letter in which he denounced that he was denied the right to a private defense. and that he had not received the results of medical examinations suffered after he was diagnosed with dengue fever at the end of October.

Six were arrested in the peninsula of Paraguaná, Falcon State (west), for supposedly photographing Maduro "very closely", depending on the public space.

The communicator was in the country to investigate drug trafficking cases, smuggling and trafficking in persons, as well as the exodus of Venezuelans forced by the serious economic crisis.

SNTP and other trade unions accuse Nicolás Maduro's regime of maintaining "a policy of systematic encroachment" against the press.

Arrests and arrests of journalists have multiplied in the middle of the power struggle between Maduro and Juan Guaidó, Head of Parliament with a recognized majority of opposition as president responsible for more than 50 countries. According to Espacio Público, about 50 media workers were apprehended in 2019.

A Polish journalist, Tomasz Surdel On Friday, he said he was beaten by the police in Caracas, in a video broadcast by the SNTP in which the face is bruised and swollen.

(With information from AFP)