CARACAS, Venezuela.— The Venezuelan Parliament, in a meeting this Tuesday, decided to approve a set of laws to take care and protect the population from hate, terrorism and the dissemination of fascist ideas in social networks, declared the president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez.
These are the Law of Control, Performance and Financing of Non-Profit Organizations and the Law against Fascism, Neo-Fascism and Similar Expressions. The latter had been presented in April by the Executive Vice-President, Delcy Rodríguez.
After 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 civic and democratic space of the country.” He also referred to alleged “arbitrary detentions” and the “disproportionate use of force by law enforcement agencies.”
In view of these “intemperate declarations,” the Chancellor, Yván Gil issued a communiqué in which he rejects them “in the strongest terms.”
He emphasized that the High Commissioner deliberately omits the condemnation of the terrorist and fascist events that took place during the presidential elections.
Finally, he reiterated his call for Turk “to desist from his provocative attitude, to cease his brutal attack against Venezuelan institutions and to take the side of the victims of the ultra-right-wing violence that, using fascist methods, has tried to inflict harm on the Venezuelan population.”