\n Venezuela on Monday rejected a report by UN experts that said its intelligence agencies are committing crimes against humanity as part of a plan orchestrated at the highest level of government to repress dissent.\n<\/p>\n
\n The UN's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela said last week that military and state intelligence services were part of a scheme \"led by President Nicolas Maduro and supported by other senior authorities\" to stifle opposition.\n<\/p>\n
\n The country's foreign affairs ministry pushed back in a statement, saying \"Venezuela expresses its most categoric rejection of the false and unfounded accusations by the so-called\" international mission.\n<\/p>\n
\n Presenting its report in Geneva last week, the mission's chair Marta Valinas said \"grave crimes and human rights violations are being committed, including acts of torture and sexual violence.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n Venezuela said this \"new pseudo-report\" lacked \"methodological substance\" and was merely designed to attack the country's institutions.\n<\/p>\n
\n The government said the report was part of a criminal strategy aiming for \"regime change\" and promoted by the United States \"with the complicity of its satellite governments around the world.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n The mission was created in 2019 and has already presented two annual reports alleging human rights violations.\n<\/p>\n
\n It has been refused access to Venezuela and hence has had to carry out its work in border areas and through phone and video interviews with those inside the country.\n<\/p>\n
\n The International Criminal Court has said it will investigate alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela related to the suppression of anti-government protests in 2017 that left around 100 people dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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