Supreme court and electoral council members among those sanctioned for impeding ‘transparent electoral process’
Venezuela’s electoral authorities declared Nicolás Maduro the victor, though they never released detailed vote tallies to back up their claim.Venezuela’s electoral authorities declared Nicolás Maduro the victor, though they never released detailed vote tallies to back up their claim., accusing them of obstructing the 28 July election and of aiding the crackdown that followed a vote widely seen to have been stolen.
Others on the new sanctions list are military leaders, intelligence officials and government officers “responsible for intensifying repression through intimidation, indiscriminate detentions and censorship”, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control .
They include Asdrubal Jose Brito Hernandez, a director within the military counter-intelligence unit, who has been described as a torturer in a United Nations. According to the OFAC, Hernandez’s unit “has led a coordinated ‘Operation Knock Knock’ campaign to harass, detain and arbitrarily arrest opposition and civil society members following the election”.
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