Tag: Tarek William Saab

• Friday, March 30th 2018 - 09:49 UTC

  Mutiny and fire leave dozens dead in Venezuelan jail; UN calls for a “thorough investigation”

  

  68 inmates lost their lives and more than 30 were injured during a riot and a fire that occurred in an overpopulated police prison in Valencia, in central Venezuela.

• Friday, December 22nd 2017 - 09:17 UTC

  Passports of 130 Venezuelan children deemed void - no Xmas family gathering for them

  

  The Venezuelan government, through the first prosecutor of Vargas state and officers of the Autonomic Service of Identification, Migration and Foreign Affairs prevented the leaving of 130 children for Peru, where they were to meet with their parents last December 15.

• Friday, August 18th 2017 - 08:50 UTC

  Venezuela begins systematic purge of the regime's opponents

  

  Venezuela’s high court issued an arrest order for the ousted chief prosecutor’s husband on Thursday after authorities accused him of running a US$6 million extortion ring, a ruling promptly denounced by government critics as a move aimed at silencing opponents of President Nicolas Maduro.

• Sunday, August 6th 2017 - 00:10 UTC

  Maduro's assembly sacks dissident attorney general; next target elected members of the Legislative

  

  The newly installed constitutional assembly ousted Venezuela's defiant chief prosecutor on Saturday, a sign that President Nicolas Maduro's embattled government intends to move swiftly against critics and consolidate power amid a fast-moving political crisis.