A Venezuelan NGO denounced the “forced disappearance” of activist Eduardo Torres

He warned that Nicolás Maduro's regime still did not provide information about his whereabouts and state of health, three days after his abduction.

VEN 002 / 0525 / OBS 024.1 Enforced disappearance / Arbitrary detention / Threats Venezuela May 15, 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests its urgent intervention in the following situation in Venezuela. New information: The Observatory has received new …

The leader of the opposition in exile Edmundo González Urrutia said on Wednesday that the arrest of lawyer and activist Eduardo Torres, whose arrest the Prosecutor's Office confirmed after three days without information about his whereabouts, represents a new face of the "politics of horror." "The case of lawyer and human rights defender Eduardo Torres, disappeared since May 9, is a new face of this policy of horror. The judicial system's refusa…

Nine international non-governmental organizations issued a joint statement expressing their “deep concern for the life, integrity, freedom and security” of Eduardo Torres, a human rights defender and member of the Venezuelan Human Rights Education-Action Programme (PROVEA), who has been missing since Friday, 9 May. Amnesty International, CIVICUS, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), the Foundation for Due Process (DPLF), the Int…

Nine international non-governmental organizations issued a joint statement expressing their “deep concern for the life, integrity, freedom and security” of Eduardo Torres, a human rights defender and member of the Venezuelan Human Rights Education-Action Programme (PROVEA), who has been missing since Friday, 9 May. Amnesty International, CIVICUS, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), the Foundation for Due Process (DPLF), the Int…

14-05-25.-"Where is Eduardo?" was the center of the demand of the press conference held this Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the headquarters of the Association of Professors of the University of Venezuela, in Caracas. The days pass and there is no information of Eduardo Torres, lawyer, trade unionist and defense...