'Pause' on Overt Repression in Venezuela, but Reforms Still Needed: HRW
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The organization said overt pressure has taken under interim President Delcy Rodriguez, following its first official visit to Venezuela in 18 years. But it also gets that the gains remain fragile without institutional reforms and the release of all political prisoners.
HRW sees a "pause" in Venezuela's repression and calls for structural reforms
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'Pause' on overt repression in Venezuela, but reforms still needed: HRW
Speaking after a meeting with Rodriguez, HRW said that Venezuelan activists, opposition leaders and journalists reported being "much freer to carry out their work" but said securing the gains required "robust institutional reforms and the release of all political prisoners." Rodriguez's talks Thursday with HRW representatives was seen as a key moment in Venezuela's transition from the hardline socialist rule of ex-president Nicolas Maduro. The N…
"There is a pause in repression," Federico Borello, deputy executive director of Human Rights Watch, told the international press after meeting Thursday with the president in Caracas. But he added that "at this fragile political moment, these advances will only be sustainable with solid institutional reforms and the release of all political prisoners." A delegation of the Oenegé, based in Washington, returned this week to Venezuela after the lat…
The interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, achieved a "tregua" after years of repression, but the country requires urgent institutional reforms, considered Friday the Oenegé HRW, which was absent for almost two decades in this nation.
HRW commented that Venezuelans "deserve to participate in timely, free and fair elections"
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