Venezuela

Human Rights in BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

Venezuela: Fear for Safety / Ill-treatment
4 January 2001

Pemón indigenous people in San Rafael de Kamoirán, including Juan Ramón Lezama and Silviano Castro, who are protesting against the construction of an electricity ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/001/2001

Venezuela: Death threat / Fear for safety
30 October 2000

Pemón indigenous people protesting against the construction of an electricity supply network in Venezuela's Gran Sabana region have reportedly received death threats ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/014/2000

Venezuela: Fear for the safety of the transgendered community in ...
11 October 2000

Amnesty International has learnt that members of the transgendered community in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela, continues to be harassed and jailed in conditions ...

Report       AMR 53/013/2000

Venezuela: Possible extrajudicial execution/Fear for safety ...
17 August 2000

On 29 July 2000, José Luis Nieves, a transgendered person known as Dayana, was killed in the city of Valencia, Carabobo State, in circumstances that suggest she ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/009/2000

Venezuela: Protecting human rights - the task is not yet over
31 July 2000

On 29 December 1999 a new Constitution came into force in Venezuela which constitutes an important and significant step forward in terms of human rights. In this ...

Report       AMR 53/008/2000

Venezuela: Fear for safety/Possible extrajudicial executions
7 May 2000

Police have reportedly threatened to kill Donis Robert Ramírez Pirona, after he saw them shoot Geralt Nazareht García. Another witness, Guillermina del Carmen ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/006/2000

Venezuela: Fear for safety/Death threat
20 March 2000

Police officers have threatened 16-year-old Alí Eduardo Sojo Díaz with death. He, his parents Flor Díaz Rangel and Freddy Sojo, and his aunt, Yolima Díaz Rangel ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/005/2000

Venezuela: "Disappearance" / Fear for safety
7 March 2000

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Oscar José ROMERO BLANCO, Marco Antonio MONASTERIO PEREZ, José Francisco RIVAS FERNANDEZ and Roberto Javier ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/004/2000

Venezuela: Fear for safety: Solmari MADERA
21 January 2000

A police inspector has threatened to kill Solmari Madera, who has testified that police searching her house without a warrant had stolen money. Amnesty International ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/001/2000

Venezuela: Death threats / fear for safety
6 October 1999

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Edgar Humberto Ortiz and Zaida Hernández de Arellano, who have been threatened with death for denouncing members ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/012/1999