A journalist working for Venezuelan opposition information web site La Patilla has been detained by the nation’s secret police.
Ana Guaita Barreto was seized at her residence close to the capital, Caracas, her household stated.
The commerce union representing media staff say she is the sixth journalist to be detained within the aftermath of the presidential election on 28 July, which the government-dominated electoral authority says was received by the incumbent, Nicolás Maduro.
The disputed end result has triggered mass protests and a wave of arrests, a lot of which human rights teams have described as arbitrary.
Ms Guaita was not informed why she was being detained however her commerce union stated she had been focused as a result of she works for an opposition information web site and each her dad and mom are opposition politicians.
Rights activist Tamara Sujú stated Ms Guaita’s household had not been informed the place she had been taken.
The Inter-American Press Affiliation (IAPA) is among the many organisations which has denounced the “systematic repression” of journalists in Venezuela.
It stated members of the media confronted “aggressions, censorship, and judicial harassment with out due course of, which ends up in arbitrary detentions”.
The federal government says it has detained greater than 2,400 folks within the aftermath of the election, a few of whom it has accused of “terrorism”.
Many are being held with out entry to impartial legal professionals and with out being allowed to contact their households.
The United Nations human rights chief final week warned of a “local weather of worry” attributable to the arbitrary detentions.
Venezuela’s Communist Get together (PCV), which broke ranks with the Maduro authorities final yr, stated on Tuesday that public staff had been being hounded out of their jobs for talking out in opposition to Mr Maduro.
In a information convention, PCV chief Jacqueline López stated that staff who had spoken out overtly in opposition to Mr Maduro or had expressed “affordable doubts concerning the outcomes introduced by the electoral council” had been threatened and persecuted.
She stated that they’d acquired experiences of unlawful sackings and compelled resignations at state-run firms resembling oil agency PdVSA and the electrical energy supplier Corpoelec.
Ms López additionally expressed concern concerning the passing of a regulation final week which supplies the the federal government a tighter management over non-governmental organisations.
Her concern was echoed by rights organisations together with Amnesty Worldwide which stated that the regulation “blatantly violates freedom of affiliation and the suitable to take part in public affairs”.
“It marks one more crackdown by Nicolás Maduro’s authorities in opposition to these combating for human rights in Venezuela,” Ana Piquer, Amnesty Worldwide’s Americas Director stated.