Venezuela

Punished protesting

In Venezuela there was little makes a passive and unarmed demonstrations. It has attracted much attention for human rights when the police attacked and fired on the population with physical, psychological abuse and even torture.

Human Rights Watch’s research shows that Venezuelan security forces have repeatedly used unlawful force against unarmed and nonviolent people. Some of the worst abuses documented in the report were against people who were not even participating in demostrations, or were already detained and fully under the control of security forces.

"The international community – and particularly the members of UNASUR who engage regularly with the Venezuelan government – should forcefully condemn the appalling abuses Human Rights Watch documented,” Vivanco said. “They should insist that the Maduro government halt these violations, release the people wrongly detained, and bring to justice the state security personnel and the armed gangs responsible for attacks on unarmed protesters.”

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2014/05/05/punished-protesting