The prolonged state of emergency entrenched the repressive regime. Mass and arbitrary detentions continued, with widespread allegations of torture, deaths in custody and enforced disappearances. The government continued to prioritize punitive security measures in a context of rising levels of extreme poverty. The approval of the Foreign Agents Law, which allowed further control and sanctions on civil society organizations, intensified the restrictions on civic space. Protest was repressed and human rights defenders and dissident voices were criminalized.
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