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Published on: 10/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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Jesus Medina Ezaine spent 16 months in a Venezuelan military prison accused of crimes he said were related to his work as a photojournalist. But another prison stint seemed imminent, especially after the contested re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. “The media is scared,” Medina said. “The Venezuelan regime does not tolerate any comments or information against them,” he added. He spent two months holed up in different locations in the capital Caracas. A wave of repression As many as 2,500 people were ultimately detained in the post-election protests, according to government statistics. Another 25 people were killed, in what independent investigators for the United Nations called “unprecedented levels of violence” A UN fact-finding mission announced earlier this month that at least 56 political opposition activists, 10 journalists and one human rights defender were among the arrested between August and December. "Maduro is not going to leave on his own, we must make him leave with the strength of a population that never gives up," Machado says. The Maduro government has ramped up security and deployed more than 1,200 military personnel to cities across the country. In turn, the government has also detained more than 12 human rights defenders, political activists, and relatives of opposition figures. "They will try to put an end to everything that they consider the opposition," he added. "What I have decided is that, no matter what, I’ll fight for my country"
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