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Amnesty has denounced what it said was a policy of "enforced disappearances" of opponents and foreign nationals since the electoral authorities declared President Nicolas Maduro winner of a disputed vote in July 2024.

Critics have disputed this characterisation, given the power imbalance at the time they were transferred.

Relations had already been on the slide after President Macron announced France was recognising Moroccan sovereignty of Western Sahara and backed a plan for limited autonomy for the disputed territory.

Officials from The Terraces have disputed many of the state investigators’ findings, both substantively and procedurally.

It disputed the claims by filming a video inside the hospital grounds showing female volunteers tending to patients.