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Weekly Report - 14 June 2018 (WR-18-23)

Venezuelan opposition sent mixed message

The president of Venezuela’s supreme court (TSJ), Maikel Moreno, said this week that magistrates were working on a series of reforms to the penal law that would allow politicians to be sentenced for the crimes of terrorism and treason. The extension of such draconian punishments to politicians belies the government’s efforts to persuade the opposition to join a dialogue table through the much-trumpeted recent release of prisoners arrested for political protests.

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