The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) admitted on Wednesday a complaint filed by Venezuelan TV news channel Globovisión and deplored the "intimidating action" taken by the Venezuelan government against the media.

The AIB, headquartered in Montevideo, issued a press release expressing its "strenuous disapproval and rejection to the sanctions pursued by the Venezuelan National Communications Commission (Conatel) against Globovisión for endangering freedom of expression, with the aggravating factor that it happens in advance to the election for state and municipal authorities," AP reported.

The complaint filed by the channel staff and stockholders reported on "impending suspension of broadcasting."

The AIB has expressed "most serious concern about continued intimidating actions against Venezuela's independent media and the increasing troubles faced by Venezuelan citizens to access free and independent information, a special condition for the operation of a democratic society."