FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

We were alarmed to hear reports of harassment by representatives of the Venezuelan government against Venezuelan civil society participants in an event we co-hosted this week in Geneva to highlight the horrific human rights abuses by the Venezuelan authorities.

That these actions took place on the margins of the Human Rights Council is a horrible irony and an insult to the institution and to the brave men and women everywhere who are standing up for their human rights and dignity. ‎These thuggish actions are precisely the type of behavior that make Venezuela’s membership on the Council absurd. This repression is ruining what was once a stable, prosperous democracy. It cannot be tolerated.

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