The peak of attacks was recorded in the month of March, when 51 incidents affecting human rights defenders were recorded. In January 2022, 14 were recorded, compared to 99 the previous year, while in March the CDJ recorded 33 incidents
The Center for Defenders and Justice (CDJ) recorded 98 attacks and security incidents against human rights defenders, organizations and associations between January and March 2022.
“The Venezuelan State continues to attack those who are in the front line of action, responding to the human rights crisis,” says the CDJ in your report. Although there is a decrease in the number of attacks, the levels of risk remain high for the human rights movement.
The Center highlighted that, to the extent that the defense of human rights continues to be stigmatized and impunity continues, the levels of risk for those who defend human rights increase. “Due to a matrix of opinion generated by the highest officials of the State, the thesis of the internal enemy against them is strengthened, encouraging other actors to be motivated to carry out aggression of some kind.”
The peak of attacks was recorded in the month of March, when 51 incidents affecting human rights activists were recorded. In January 2022, 14 were recorded, compared to 99 the previous year, while in March the CDJ recorded 33 incidents.
Of the total, 67 corresponded to acts of stigmatization made by high and mid-level State officials, as well as individuals. 18 attacks were situations of intimidation and harassment, while 10 were direct threats that affect the composition of human rights defenders and organizations.
“Far from heeding the repeated calls of the international community and human rights mechanisms, the State continues without using the necessary corrective measures to end the criminalization policy and, on the contrary, different types of attacks continue to materialize against those who document, They denounce and spread the abuses, crimes against humanity and human rights violations that are committed in the country,” said the CDJ.
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