OCTOBER 2020
The Center for Human Rights Defenders and Justice (CDJ for its acronym in Spanish) registered 46 new attacks and security incidents during the month of October 2020 in Venezuela. The systematic policy of criminalization of defense and demand for human rights, which aims to qualify defenders as internal enemies of the State that must be neutralized continues to aggravate.
The reduction of the civic and democratic space added to the social control measures and the deepening of the Complex Humanitarian Emergency, aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, generate an adverse and hostile environment in which those who defend human rights must carry out their activities exposed to serious risks that can compromise the operations of organizations and their life and personal integrity.
CRIMINALIZATION OF COOPERATION
Under the application of the National Security Doctrine and the logic of the internal enemy, the Venezuelan State continues to fail to comply with its international obligations, and also pretends to evade international scrutiny by disqualifying them, and attacking, criminalizing, and stigmatizing the organizations and people who attend and they cooperate with them in order to denounce the violations and crimes that are committed in the country; as well as attacking them for receiving financing.
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