CARACAS, Venezuela – The Venezuelan parliament, meeting on Tuesday, decided to approve a set of laws to protect the population from hatred, terrorism and the spread of fascist ideas on social networks, announced National Assembly (AN) member Jorge Rodríguez.
They are the Nonprofit Oversight, Performance and Funding Act and the Anti-Fascism, Neo-Fascism and Similar Expressions Act. The latter was introduced in April by Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.
Following the parliamentary meeting, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, urged the Venezuelan government “not to adopt these or other laws that undermine the country’s civic and democratic space.” He also pointed to alleged “arbitrary arrests” and “disproportionate use of force by law enforcement agencies.”
In the face of these “extremist statements”, Counselor Ivan Gill issued a statement rejecting these statements “in the strongest terms”.
He stressed that the High Commissioner deliberately ignored the condemnation of the terrorist and fascist events that took place during the presidential election period.
Finally, he reiterates his call to “cease his provocative stance and distance himself from his responsibilities, stop his brutal attack on Venezuelan institutions and stand by the victims of the violence of the extreme right that, using fascist methods, “tried to harm the Venezuelan people.”
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