Venezuelan journalist assaulted and detained

Gina Reyes, a journalist with the Venezuelan newspaper El Carabobeño, was assaulted by members of the country's national guard while covering a protest march in the state of Aragua. She was then detained for six hours, and her tape-recorder and mobile phone were confiscated. Before being released she was forced to sign a false confession that she had failed to identify herself to the authorities. (Via IFEX)