GENEVA – Hours after the Venezuelan police’s midnight arrest of pro-democracy leader Leopoldo Lopez and Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, the Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch today called on U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, UN chief Antonio Guterres and human rights commissioner Zeid Al-Hussein to support an emergency session of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council to address the dire situation of human rights in Venezuela.
“Midnight police raids into the homes of peaceful democracy leaders is a move reminiscent of Stalinist regimes,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer.
