UN Human Rights Council to send a team of investigators to probe alleged violations in crisisa-hit Venezuela as EU slaps sanctions on seven more of the country’s officials
In this September 24, 2019 photo, opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro protest outside the UN headquarters in New York.
It called for the UN's top rights body to "dispatch urgently an independent international fact-finding mission" to Venezuela. The one-year mission should carry out its investigation "with a view to ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims," said the text, which also received the backing of the European Union.
Even when they are not granted access to a country, UN investigators can nonetheless carry out probes from abroad, as has been the case with investigations into abuses in Syria and Myanmar.Friday's resolution deplored "the systematic abuse of state institutions ... accelerating the erosion of the rule of law and of democratic institutions" in Venezuela.
The "additional targeted measures," set out in a statement and published in the bloc's official journal, come on top of sanctions the European Union has in place since 2017 which include 18 other individuals and a ban on the export of arms and other equipment that Venezuela could use for repression.
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