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Venezuela orders UN office on human rights to close and its staff to leave in 3 days

  • Venezuela has suspended activities of the UN rights office and ordered its staff to leave within 72 hours after the agency expressed "deep concern" over the detention of activist Rocio San Miguel.
  • Foreign Minister Yvan Gil accused the UN rights office of adopting an inappropriate role and vowed to maintain the suspension until the agency rectifies its attitude. Venezuela will, however, continue to cooperate with the rights agency in Geneva.
  • An independent UN fact-finding mission condemned the intensifying repression of opponents in Venezuela, calling it part of a coordinated plan to silence critics.
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The Venezuelan authorities are said to have uncovered five plans to assassinate the country's president, attributing responsibility to human rights activists.

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The Venezuelan government has asked the staff of the UN Human Rights Agency (OHCHR) to leave the country within the next three days, stating that it will carry out a review of cooperation with the UN.

·Belgrade, Serbia
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All staff at the UN's human rights office in Venezuela have been given three days to leave the country.

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The announcement comes after a wave of arrests of critics and opponents in the country

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Venezuela's foreign minister has decided to “suspend all activities” of the UN human rights office in the country. At the same time, he has given all the employees 72 hours to leave Venezuela. This was reported by the AFP news agency. The country's foreign minister, Yvan Gail, explains that the UN office has taken on an “inappropriate role” and that it has become “a private law office for the coup-makers and terrorists who constantly conspire ag…

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Stars and Stripes broke the news in Washington, United States on Thursday, February 15, 2024.
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