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Human Rights in BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

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Venezuela: International Human Rights Day: One year on from the ...
10 December 2010

Amnesty International believes that the arrest of Judge María Lourdes Afiuni Mora on 10 December 2009 is a case of undue political interference on the part of the ...

Document       AMR 53/009/2010

Venezuela: Further information: Dad attacked as he calls for ...
22 July 2010

Victor Martínez, the father of a 23 year-old man who was shot dead last year, Mijail Martínez, has been attacked. He was handing out flyers alleging that police ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/008/2010

Venezuela: Human rights defender at risk
18 May 2010

Rocío San Miguel, a Venezuelan human rights defender, has suffered intimidation and could be facing arbitrary arrest. She has accused high-ranking members of the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/007/2010

Venezuela: Three men abducted in Venezuela: Gabriel Antonio ...
15 April 2010

Three young men were abducted, apparently by police officers, from a construction site where they were working in Venezuela on 12 March. They have not been seen ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/006/2010

Venezuela: Blanco released on bail, still faces trial
9 April 2010

Richard Blanco was released on 6 April 2010. He still faces trial and is obliged to present himself in court every 15 days. He cannot leave the country without ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/005/2010

Venezuela: Further information: Critics of Venezuelan government ...
1 April 2010

Oswaldo Álvarez Paz was detained on 22 March after he criticized the Venezuelan government on TV. Four other outspoken critics of the government also face fabricated ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/004/2010

Venezuela: The Venezuelan State must respect fundamental rights of ...
29 January 2010

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AMR 53/003/2010. 29 January 2010. The Venezuelan State must respect fundamental rights ...

PressItem       AMR 53/003/2010

Venezuela: Further information: Venezuelan farmer able to see ...
26 January 2010

Farmer Franklin Brito Rodríguez has now been returned to his bed on a regular ward of the military hospital in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where he is being ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/002/2010

Venezuela: Hunger striking farmer is missing in Venezuela ...
15 January 2010

Franklin Brito Rodríguez, a farmer, went missing from a military hospital in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on 9 January 2010. Staff at the hospital, where he ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/001/2010

Venezuela: Government official held in Venezuela
23 December 2009

Richard Blanco, a male local government official from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is being detained in a prison in Caracas without any evidence of him having ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/009/2009