Venezuela: Political Persecution a Year After Elections

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Relatives of detainees take part in a demonstration demanding the release of political prisoners in front of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Caracas on November 21, 2024. © 2024 FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – Venezuelan authorities are carrying out widespread abuses against critics through politically motivated arrests, a year after the presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.Hours after polls closed on July 28, 2024, the Electoral Council declared that Nicolás Maduro had been re-elected. International observers…

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