Venezuela: Amnesty law must not become a mechanism of repression
Nearly two months after the approval of the amnesty law intended to grant freedom to people prosecuted and detained for political reasons in Venezuela, Amnesty International reminds the Venezuelan authorities that its implementation must not rely on discretionary criteria that perpetuate the political repression the law is, in theory, intended to remedy. In this regard, Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said:
“The same arbitrariness with which Venezuela has imprisoned thousands of people in recent years now defines how courts selectively apply the amnesty law, materializing the risk long denounced by human rights organizations regarding the urgent need to provide redress to tens of thousands of people detained for political reasons in the country.”
