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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Venezuela ( UN to look into torture violations in Venezuela )

Monday March 10, 2014  01:50 PM
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has received renewed claims of alleged torture in Venezuela, Argentinean Juan Méndez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, told AFP on Monday in Geneva, outside the presentation of his office annual report.

"We are receiving new claims. They are varied and those related to my incumbency, particularly some of them, fortunately a few of them, have to do with very severe treatment concerning torture," Méndez told AFP.

"We want them to be investigated in depth; they are very, very serious tortures," Méndez said after submitting his report to the UN Human Rights Council.

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