Venezuelan government ordered the local United Nations Office for Human Rights to suspend its operations and instructed its staff to leave the country within 72 hours claiming that the agency promoted opposition to the government, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil shared in a statement on Thursday.
In the statement, the government accused the United Nations office of not acting as an impartial entity, but rather of functioning as a "private legal entity for coup plotters and terrorists" who permanently conspire against the country.
The move comes over the human rights watchdog's condemnation of last week's arrest of activist Rocio San Miguel who was detained in the Venezuelan city of Caracas. The country's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced that San Miguel had been accused of treason, conspiracy, terrorism, and criminal association as part of the ongoing investigation into the alleged "White Bracelet" plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro.
