“Journalists and police officers who had been held [on Tuesday, Oct. 29] by people blocking a highway in Mairana [Bolivia] were released after hours of tension. Among the journalists were Rómer Castedo and his cameraman Ricardo Pedraza, from Red Uno, who, along with another journalist, were attacked while covering the police's attempts to clear the old highway to Cochabamba, blocked by sectors related to former President Evo Morales.
'They threw stones and sticks at us; It was as if a hundred people were stoning us at the same time,' journalist Rómer Castedo told a media outlet, in time to confirm that they were detained along with several injured police officers in the middle of the fray.
During the detention, the journalists and police officers were taken to a home in Mairana, where they were threatened and physically attacked.”
