UN rights experts decry worsening repression in Venezuela in wake of contested election result
- The U.N. fact-finding mission on Venezuela revealed rights violations by security forces, stating they “constitute the crime against humanity of persecution on political grounds.”
- Following the July 28 election, over 2,400 arbitrary detentions occurred, and 25 deaths were reported, most from gunshot wounds, marking severe rule of law deterioration.
- The mission's head, Marta Valiñas, noted an “intensification of the state’s repressive machinery” in response to dissent, characterizing actions as a coordinated plan to silence opposition.
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According to the mission, the regime's apparatus focuses on disintegrating the opposition through actions that are not “isolated or random, but part of a continuous and coordinated plan to silence, discourage and repress”
US supports those facing "repression" in Venezuela
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke on the phone with Venezuelan opposition figures María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia this Tuesday (17), assuring them that “Washington will continue to defend the return to democratic freedoms” in the South American country. . “Blinken praised his courage and commitment to democratic principles in the face of brutal repression and suffering,” the State Department said, not clarifying whet…
A report by the Fact-Finding Mission created by the UN Human Rights Council to document the violations that occur in the country confirmed that the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro has committed crimes against humanity. Read more]] >
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