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Rights suspended

Saturday 23 July 1994 23:02 BST
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CARACAS - Venezuela's government, defying a rebellious Congress, suspended key constitutional freedoms one day after legislators ordered their restoration. The Justice Minister, Ruben Creixems, said that the government was again removing rights of protection against arbitrary search or arrest, to travel freely, to hold private property and of protection against expropriation without proper reimbursement. Reuter

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