Venezuela: Persecution builds relentlessly for civil society and dissidents

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Venezuela: Persecution builds relentlessly for civil society and dissidents

16 Apr 2024

“In Venezuela, Maduro’s government has started the year with an alarming intensification of the policy of repression that it uses to try to curtail civic space, critical voices and political opposition,” said Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, in response to an escalating number of arbitrary arrests of human rights defenders and opposition activists, as well as proposed laws that would flagrantly violate human rights.
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