Venezuela Moves to Unwind Hate Speech Law That Jailed Thousands
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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español The National Assembly of Venezuela, controlled by Chavismo, approved on Tuesday in first discussion a reform to the Law against Hate, a legal framework criticized by human rights organizations that consider that the new project “preserves mechanisms of control” to pursue opponents and demand its repeal. The proposal —which must be submitted to public debate and returned to Parliament for a …
Venezuela Moves to Unwind Hate Speech Law That Jailed Thousands
Venezuelan lawmakers took the first step toward reforming a controversial law long used to jail dissidents as the interim government further unwinds some of the tools of repression imposed under ousted leader Nicolás Maduro.
The prison sentences of 10 to 20 years provided for in the 2017 law are eliminated, replacing them with financial fines equivalent to between 500 and 10,000 times the official rate of CVB and community work for repeat offenders.
The Parliament of Venezuela, with a Chavista majority, approved on Tuesday in first discussion the reform of the anti-hate law to decriminalize and establish administrative sanctions or fines for those who incur these offences, following a petition made at the end of September by the executive vice president of the South American country, Delcy Rodríguez. The reform to [...] The entry Parliament approves in a first debate the reform to the hate …
A law passed in 2017 and by which #chavismo silenced dissent and imprisoned its critics in #Venezuela begins to go into extinction phase.
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