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Venezuelan Supreme Court Bans Media From Publishing Lynching Videos
http://thewire.in/2016/06/09/venezuelan-supreme-court-bans-media-from-publishing-lynching-videos-41788/Caracas: Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Wednesday banned media from publishing videos of lynchings, saying they create “anxiety and uncertainty” in a country ravaged by violent crime and an economic crisis.
The OPEC nation’s society is in upheaval amid triple-digit inflation, a deep recession and brutal shortages of food and medicine. As Venezuelans have grown increasingly angry at frequent thefts, hold-ups and homicides, mob beatings and lynchings have increased in the country, which is already one of the world’s most violent.
Gory videos of mob justice or photos of bloody corpses sometimes make the rounds on social media. President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government says the footage is part of a larger plan to sully his administration and stoke unrest in an attempt to unseat him.
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“Media have the right to journalistically express a news event … but these rights should not create anxiety and uncertainty in the population,” the court said.
