Venezuela: Fear for safety/ill treatment

Index Number: AMR 53/005/2002
Date Published: 9 May 2002
Categories: Americas, Venezuela

Luis Martínez, aged 27, Marvin Rangel, aged 20, Maiker Enrique Duno, aged 19, were arbitrarily detained and beaten by police in Sucre on 30 April. The police threatened to kill them if they reported what had happened. Since then the same police officers have been harassing them, and Amnesty International believes their lives may be in danger.