Since the trial of Daniel Sancho began several weeks ago on the island of Koh Phangan, events have not stopped happening. Latest, the detention of two Spanish journalists by the local police for not having a work visa.
“Right now Pedro and I are detained at the Koh Phangan police station. We were going to do a live show and some immigration police came, they asked us for our documentation, and they started saying that we didn’t have a work visawhich we do have, that’s why I’m very calm, although they don’t let us move since they tell us that this visa doesn’t work,” the reporter explained to La Razón.
Who are the detained reporters?
The protagonists of this unpleasant altercation are Esther Yáñez, journalist of the program On everyone’s lipsby Cuatro, and his cameraman, Pedro Luis Molina.
She is the in charge of covering the information on the case of Daniel Sancho since last Augustand she was precisely about to go live with the program when she was detained by the authorities.
Esther defines herself as a “wild globetrotter”, and explains, in her X account, that she has lived in Russia, the US and Venezuela, and has spent the last few months covering the war in Ukraine.
According to El Debate, which claims that both have been held in the same cell where Daniel Sancho was in his first days, the journalist and her camera They were released on Monday afternoon.
