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UN Human Rights Council Condemns Venezuela, Extends Investigation Mandate 2 Years

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday extended by two years the mandate of investigators who have documented executions, disappearances, and torture in Venezuela that they say may amount to crimes against humanity.

It condemned “widespread targeted repression and persecution” by security forces and called on the government of President Nicolas Maduro to cooperate with a preliminary examination opened by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

“We continue to see new cases of arbitrary killings, torture and other serious violations of human rights in that country,” said Silvia Elena Alfaro Espinosa, Peru's ambassador to the . . .

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