Venezuelas Supreme Court has released 22 prisoners, including a high profile judge. Maria afiuni is one of many people the opposition says are political prisoners. She was first arrested ten years ago, and had been sentenced again in march for corruption. The move has been welcomed by the un, which published a highly critical report on thursday accusing president maduros government of widespread human rights abuses against the opposition and minority groups. But maria afiunis brother says his sister still has restrictions on her freedom. Translation she cant speak to the media. She cant use social media. She cant leave the country. She has to present herself every 30 days. The logical thing would be to get rid of all the cautionary measures and respect what the un says, which is complete freedom, but that has not happened. We continue to wait. The un says one thing, the maduro government does another. Theyre never serious about what International Organisations say, so were in the same
And had been sentenced again in march for corruption. The move has been welcomed by the un, which published a highly critical report on thursday, accusing president maduros government of widespread human rights abuses against the opposition and minority groups. But maria afiunis brother says his sister still has restrictions on her freedom. Translation she cant speak to the media. She cant use social media. She cant leave the country. She has to present herself every 30 days. The logical thing would be to get rid of all the cautionary measures and respect what the un says, which is complete freedom, but that has not happened. We continue to wait. The un says one thing, the maduro government does another. Theyre never serious about what International Organisations say, so were in the same situation. We continue to wait. The bbcs Guillermo Olmo is following events from caracas. Well, its very hard to say whats the real reason behind what nicolas maduros government does. What we know is t
A resolution but it will be published as an official document of the Uns Human Rights Council activists say its a good sign but chinas government has long stood defiant against foreign criticism katia locus of the young aljazeera is going to talk on and weigh in hey whos joining us live from beijing so has there been any response from the Chinese Government yet way. Yes well we just a short time ago heard from the ministry of Foreign Affairs in a regular daily Media Briefing the spokesman predictably i guess was dismissive of this letter signed by 22 countries saying it was an attempt to politicize the issue of human rights the spokesman also said that this was a domestic affair and it was not up to anyone outside of china to comment on the situation in genk he also pointed out that there have been no terrorist attacks in the area for the past 2 years evidence he says that this is working remembering that the government in china says these are not the Tension Centers theyre vocational
Hello and welcome to bbc world news. Venezuela has released 22 people regarded by the opposition as political prisoners, including a prominentjudge. Since her arrest in 2009, maria afiuni has faced a range of charges and has spent years in prison or under house arrest. The United Nations commisioner on human rights had appealed for her release, before publishing a report yesterday accusing president maduros government of abusing the Justice System to suppress his political opponents. Maria afiunis brother said his sister still had restrictions on her freedom. Translation she cant speak to the media. She cant use social media. She cant leave the country. She has to present herself every 30 days. The logical thing would be to get rid of all the cautionary measures and respect what the un says, which is complete freedom. But that has not happened. We continue to wait. The un says one thing, the maduro government does another. They are never serious about what International Organisations s
Gianni infantino is the surprise new boss of fifa. And donald trump gets the backing of Chris Christie as the republicans president ial candidate. After five long years of war, all the warring sides in the conflict apart from isil and the al nusra front has agreed to participate in a cessation of hostilities. Less than an hour ago the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously about the ceasefire. The deal was struck in munich, but throughout the day there has been more fighting and reports of more civilian casualties. Diplomatic editor james bays joins us live now. James, as youre hearing from the representatives of the different members of the council, i suppose two things really came out. One was how much of this depends on the actions of armed groups, fighting on the ground in syria, and of course the second part is the backers regionally and internationally, and how they influence those parties. Yes, you can have a cessation of hostilities on paper. You can have, as you now