6 16. That the Commission urged the State to coordinate with the instrumentalities in charge of implementing the provisional measures, as well as with the beneficiaries thereof, in order to create a means in which they can participate, as well as be kept informed regarding the planning and implementing of the current provisional measures. * * * 17. That as concerns aggressions against the beneficiaries, the representatives indicated that: a) on October 17, 2004 there were verbal aggressions by the President of the Republic against the “El Nacional” newspaper, wherein he called it “coupmonger” and of a “conspiratorial attitude” and he called Miguel Enrique Otero a “fascist;” b) between June and November of 2005 some newspapers described as “progovernment” issued opinion pieces and articles that were part of a campaign to dishonor the newspaper “El Nacional”; c) on March 15, 2007 an “El Nacional” press photographer would have been “attacked [physically and verbally] by a group of [taxi motor bikers]” while he was “covering a protest of theirs in front of Miraflores Palace (the Presidential Palace), suffering blows and verbal aggressions in the process of such motor bikers trying to prevent him from reaching the location in order to carry out his press activities;” d) on August 22, 2007 Vanessa Gómez Quiroz, a “Tu Kiosko TEN, C.A.,” journalist would have suffered physical aggression. The press article produced by the representatives reports as follows: A group of government followers […] and another one supportive of opposition sectors came to blows and kicking at the door of the Juzgado Superior 3º Civil and Contencioso Administrativo de Caracas (Caracas Third Civil and Administrative Disputes Superior Court) during a constitutional hearing. Both groups were outside the Tribunal waiting for the judicial proceedings against a [member of the House of Deputies] to end. In the course of the brawl eight persons got beaten […and] the journalists covering the judicial act were attacked by Chavism followers. The RCTV Internacional reporting team […] bore the worst of the brunt […]. RCR and El Nacional journalists Mardolei Prin and Vanessa Gómez Quiroz were also beaten. The event took place under the indifferent gaze of the alguaciles (bailiffs) in charge of court security and of Miranda State Government policemen in uniform, y e) on July 25, 2008 a media communicator and “El Nacional” correspondent who was on duty covering some journalistic news, would have been detained, for seven hours, by Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención (DISIP) (Intelligence and Prevention Services Bureau) agents and removed to the Barinas Police Headquarters due to the fact that he was carrying documents on alleged irregularities that would relate to a larceny that had happened at the home of a nephew of the President of the Republic.

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