{"id":1501871,"date":"2024-02-15T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/15\/venezuela-closes-un-human-rights-office"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:28:26","slug":"venezuela-closes-un-human-rights-office-days-after-detaining-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/15\/venezuela-closes-un-human-rights-office-days-after-detaining-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela closes UN human rights office citing \u2018colonialist attitude\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister claims local office of UN high commissioner for human rights supported impunity for coup plotters<\/p><p>Venezuela\u2019s government has ordered the local UN office on human rights to suspend operations, giving its staff 72 hours to leave, after accusing the office of promoting opposition to the South American country.<\/p><p>The foreign affairs minister, Yv\u00e1n Gil, announced the decision at a news conference in Caracas on Thursday. Gil\u2019s announcement came on the heels of the detention of the human rights attorney Roc\u00edo San Miguel, which set off a wave of criticism inside and outside Venezuela.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/15\/venezuela-closes-un-human-rights-office\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/15\/venezuela-closes-un-human-rights-office\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister claims local office of UN high commissioner for human rights supported impunity for coup plottersVenezuela\u2019s government has ordered the local UN office on human rights to suspend operations, giving its staff 72 hours to leave, after ac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1280,6,111,59,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501920,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501871\/revisions\/1501920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}