They released the Venezuelan journalist who was arrested by the intelligence services

Journalist and activist for Hispanic-Venezuelan human rights Luis Carlos Díaz was released Tuesday, a day after his arrest by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), as confirmed by the National Association of Journalists (NPC) of Venezuela: "Our colleague Luis Carlos Diaz is in their release, "they pointed out via their Twitter social network account. "They released our colleague and journalist Luis Carlos Díaz," said Radio Union Radio, for which he works.

The NGO Espacio Público informed her after declaring that the Caracas 31 control court had handed the journalist "conservatory measures of liberty": "Judge Freddy Pérez has set Diaz to prohibit to leave the country, the ranking system every eight days and ban declare to the media. They blame the instigation of committing a crime", voiced the NGO through the social network Twitter.

The journalist was arrested Monday by agents of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), as reported by the National Union of Venezuelan Press Workers (SNTP), his wife and the PROVEA organization. The reporter's wife, Naky Soto, later confirmed to the SNTP representatives the "search" of her house and the detention of her husband, in addition to the seizing your computer equipment and your money.

According to journalists from the Venezuelan opposition, the president of the Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, accused Luis Carlos Díaz in his TV show Con el Malzo of being one of the leaders of the power outages that hit the country in recent days. His arrest mobilized the journalistic guild during a demonstration of some 300 people in Caracas and provoked indignation on the international scene. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expressed "deeply worried" about the event.

Then, members of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) appeared at dawn on Tuesday with him, handcuffed, at his home for a search and took him to the agency's headquarters in the capital. . The agents confiscated computers, electronic memory, mobile phones and money, the SNTP said.

On March 7, US journalist Cody Weddle was arrested for 12 hours by military counterintelligence agents and deported to his country. The NGO Espacio Público, which defends freedom of expression, recorded fifty arrests of press workers in Venezuela in 2019. In addition, he noted that the German journalist Billy Six has been detained in the Sebin since 17 November.

Meanwhile, two weeks ago, the two largest Hispanic networks in the United States, Univisión and Telemundo, denounced the "detention" and "kidnapping" during the exercise of their profession in Caracas. after the detention for a few hours, Jorge Ramos Mexican-American Univisión and Daniel Garrido, Venezuelan journalist of Telemundo.

Here is the video by which they accuse Diaz of having participated in the sabotage of the electrical service:

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