Friday, September 21, 2018

NEWS Amnesty accuses Venezuela of Thousands of Extrajudicial Executions


Amnesty International on Thursday accused Venezuela’s security forces of thousands of extrajudicial executions targeting mainly poor young men. According to the report, COFAVIC, a Venezuelan non-governmental organisation representing relatives of victims, has documented 6,385 cases of extrajudicial executions that occurred between 2012 and 2017. The cases increased from 1,018 in 2014 to 2,379 in 2016. An Amnesty press release put the number of extrajudicial executions at 8,292 between 2015 and 2017 alone. More…

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