· March, 2013

Stories about Venezuela from March, 2013

Venezuela: Twitter user detained for spreading “destabilizing” information

  14 March 2013

On March 14, Lourdes Alicia Ortega Pérez was detained by Venezuelan authorities for allegedly having "usurped the identity of an official of the Autonomous Service of Registries and Notaries" and having sent messages on Twitter that were "destabilizing [to] the country." An official press release stated that police also seized Ortega's personal computer as part of their investigation.

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