IAPA condemned the arrest of Venezuelan journalist Luis Carlos Díaz

The Inter-American Press Association (SIP) on Tuesday condemned the arrest of the Venezuelan-American journalist Luis Carlos Díaz by officials of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) of Nicolás Maduro's regime.

IAPA, based in Miami, described the capture of Díaz, who remains in secret, from "New attack on freedom of the press" in Venezuela.

Díaz, of Venezuelan and Spanish nationality, He works on the radio Unión Radio Noticias in Caracas. and is a human rights activist.

The journalist was arrested Monday afternoon by agents of the Sebin and, according to his wife, Naky Soto –Also a reporter – this morning, intelligence agents broke into his home and seized four mobile phones, three laptops and a hard drive.

"The first SEBIN commission that interviewed him mistreated him, they hit him with the bicycle helmet, they told him that I was detained, that they I had at the military hospital, they even said that they would take a body home to accuse us of murder "Soto told the headquarters of the Office of the Prosecutor, who was mobilized to request his release.

"They threatened him with me several times because of my oncological condition", the journalist revealed, suffering from cancer for a little more than a year.

The radio reporter was accused by the president of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), Diosdado Cabello – considered the "number two" of Chavismo – to be behind the alleged sabotage of the electrical system that has plunged the country into the dark since last Thursday, an accusation that Soto called "madness".

The president of SIP, María Elvira Domínguezand the Chairman of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, Roberto Rock, demanded the "immediate release of the journalist".

Dominguez asked the Venezuelan dictatorship to comply international obligations regarding the treatment and protection of journalists and the media.

The Maduro regime temporarily arrested many Venezuelan journalists, foreign correspondents and special envoys, including the star journalist of the Spanish network Univision. Jorge Ramos.