UN investigators accuse Venezuelan government of ‘crimes against humanity’

Nicolas Maduro (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Independent experts commissioned by the UN’s Human Rights Council have alleged the government of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro committed crimes against humanity.

The experts have issued a report that said the people responsible for crimes that include extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture must be held to account, in part to ensure they do not happen again.