U.N. report highlights extrajudicial executions in Venezuela (July 4, 2019)
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Venezuelan security forces appear to be carrying out extrajudicial executions, which they stage to look like the victims resisted arrest, according to a new U.N. report. Government figures showed that deaths ascribed to criminals resisting arrest numbered 5,287 last year and 1,569 by May 19 this year. The report said a "shockingly high" number of these deaths appeared to be extrajudicial executions carried out by the Special Action Forces (FAES) of the police, and that they form part of a strategy by the government of President Nicolas Maduro aimed at "neutralizing, repressing and criminalizing political opponents and people critical of the government", which accelerated since 2016. (
U.N. report highlights extrajudicial executions in Venezuela (July 4, 2019)
U.N. report highlights extrajudicial…
U.N. report highlights extrajudicial executions in Venezuela (July 4, 2019)
Venezuelan security forces appear to be carrying out extrajudicial executions, which they stage to look like the victims resisted arrest, according to a new U.N. report. Government figures showed that deaths ascribed to criminals resisting arrest numbered 5,287 last year and 1,569 by May 19 this year. The report said a "shockingly high" number of these deaths appeared to be extrajudicial executions carried out by the Special Action Forces (FAES) of the police, and that they form part of a strategy by the government of President Nicolas Maduro aimed at "neutralizing, repressing and criminalizing political opponents and people critical of the government", which accelerated since 2016. (