{"id":55206,"date":"2024-08-11T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T06:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55206"},"modified":"2024-08-11T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T06:37:03","slug":"venezuelan-opposition-demands-maduro-end-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55206","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan opposition demands Maduro end &#8216;persecution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Venezuela&#8217;s opposition candidate called Saturday for President Nicolas Maduro to end &#8220;violence and persecution,&#8221; hours after the country&#8217;s high court said its upcoming ruling on the disputed July 28 election cannot be appealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have won the election by a wide margin, posted a social media video demanding Maduro allow free political expression.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ask you on behalf of all Venezuelans to put an end to the violence and persecution and to immediately release all compatriots arbitrarily detained,&#8221; Gonzalez Urrutia said, referring to post-election unrest that left 24 dead and 2,200 people arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demanding respect for our constitution is not a crime, demonstrating peacefully to uphold the will of millions of Venezuelans is not a crime,&#8221; the 74-year-old former diplomat added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela&#8217;s opposition candidate called Saturday for President Nicolas Maduro to end &#8220;violence and persecution,&#8221; hours after the country&#8217;s high court said its upcoming ruling on the disputed July 28 election cannot be appealed. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have won the election by a wide margin, posted a social media video demanding Maduro allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2122],"class_list":["post-55206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-venezuelan-opposition-demands-maduro-end-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}