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Sheyla Mungia Carrazco, journalist

"Since December I started getting insults from the soldiers when they saw me reporting from demonstrations, and one of the military chiefs was saying things like ‘Sheyla, there’s lots of other jobs you could do, resign from this job, get another’.

One day we saw the cameraman from another TV station being beaten by the soldiers, and they broke his camera. I told my cameraman to film it, the soldiers said that if we filmed it the same would happen to us.

I went to report on the arrest of a protestor, one of many arrests I've tried to report on, I’ve been prevented from doing these interviews by the Army before. I didn’t have my cameraman with me, so I was filming it myself, and a soldier hit me with a baton and I dropped my microphone, when I bent to pick it up all the soldiers surrounded me and started groping and hitting me, there were about 30 soldiers, they all had balaclavas on. I’ve made official complaints about this, but the soldiers can’t be identified.

My family tell me to leave this job, they’re afraid.

The TV channel I work for, Prensa Libre, is now under a legal threat of losing ownership, it will probably go to an owner that favours the government. We’re the last channel giving opposition views in the region."

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Sheyla Mungia Carrazco, journalist<br /> <br /> "Since December I started getting insults from the soldiers when they saw me reporting from demonstrations, and one of the military chiefs was saying things like ‘Sheyla, there’s lots of other jobs you could do, resign from this job, get another’. <br /> <br /> One day we saw the cameraman from another TV station being beaten by the soldiers, and they broke his camera. I told my cameraman to film it, the soldiers said that if we filmed it the same would happen to us. <br /> <br /> I went to report on the arrest of a protestor, one of many arrests I've tried to report on, I’ve been prevented from doing these interviews by the Army before. I didn’t have my cameraman with me, so I was filming it myself, and a soldier hit me with a baton and I dropped my microphone, when I bent to pick it up all the soldiers surrounded me and started groping and hitting me, there were about 30 soldiers, they all had balaclavas on. I’ve made official complaints about this, but the soldiers can’t be identified.<br /> <br /> My family tell me to leave this job, they’re afraid.<br /> <br /> The TV channel I work for, Prensa Libre, is now under a legal threat of losing ownership, it will probably go to an owner that favours the government. We’re the last channel giving opposition views in the region."