Extraterritorial stigmatization and propaganda is the predominant modality, with 176 cases (53.99%); This is followed by consular-administrative repression with 112 cases (34.36%) and extraterritorial criminal repression with 23 cases (7.06%).
The organization Un Mundo Sin Mordaza documented 326 verified cases of transnational repression during the years 2024 and 2025 by the Venezuelan State against activists who are in exile.
The study shows – the NGO noted – how the Venezuelan State has extended its mechanisms of persecution beyond the national territory, particularly against those who continue to exercise their right to protest, public denunciation and political participation from abroad.
According to the results of the study, transnational repression operates through multiple interrelated typologies, which combine discursive, administrative, judicial, migratory, digital and, in certain cases, coercive instruments.
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How extraterritorial repression is carried out
The organization registered various types of repression outside Venezuelan borders.
Stigmatization and extraterritorial propaganda. This is the predominant modality, with 176 cases (53.99%). Which confirms, according to the NGO, the systematic use of official narratives and communication platforms to discredit, intimidate and publicly isolate people abroad.
Consular-administrative repression. There are 112 cases (34.36%). A World Without Gag pointed out that these cases show the instrumentalization of documentary procedures, records and consular services as mechanisms of control and exclusion.
Extraterritorial criminal repression. They documented 23 cases (7.06%) that, according to the study, reveal the use of the justice system to criminalize people outside the country through investigations, requests or procedures of a criminal nature.
Other typologies, although less frequent in quantitative terms, present a special qualitative severity: extraterritorial physical presence (5 cases; 1.53%), reprisals against family members (3 cases; 0.92%), transnational digital repression (3 cases;
0.92%), migration coercion in the host country (2 cases; 0.61%) and abusive use of international police mechanisms (2 cases; 0.61%).
«This report demonstrates that these are not isolated events, but rather a systematic pattern that seeks to intimidate, silence and isolate those who continue to denounce from abroad. The persecution crossed borders. The defense of human rights must also do so,” he indicated.
To read the full report, you can click A World Without a Gag.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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