Thursday, September 8, 2016

Journalist charged in Venezuela after anti-Maduro protest

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Journalist charged in Venezuela after anti-Maduro protest.

Protesters run after clashes with the police during
 a rally to demand a referendum to remove
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas,
 Venezuela, September 1, 2016. 
REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
A prominent journalist and lawyer jailed on Venezuela's Margarita island was charged on Monday with money laundering, according to family and a rights group, following his arrest after publicizing a protest against President Nicolas Maduro.
Videos published by activists, purportedly from the locality of Villa Rosa, showed scores of people banging pots and pans and jeering the socialist leader as he visited the island on Friday evening.
More than 30 people were briefly detained, activists said on Saturday.
The incident came as the opposition has been stepping up its campaign for a referendum to recall Maduro, who says a coup is being planned against him.
All those held in Margarita were released after a few hours except Braulio Jatar, 58, who was picked up on Saturday morning on his way to host his regular morning radio show, according to his family.
They knew nothing about his whereabouts until hours later when intelligence agents came to the family home and searched it, allowing them to send him clothes, according to his sister, Boston-based Ana Julia Jatar, 60.
Jatar was born in Chile, where Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz expressed concern over Jatar's arrest and the charges against him.

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