Eduardo Torres is a human rights defender, lawyer and member of the Venezuelan Education-Action Program on Human Rights (PROVEA)’s legal enforcement team.
He has been missing since Friday, 9 May 2025, likely due to his work as a human rights activist. According to witnesses, Eduardo Torres was last seen on Friday, 9 May, at 4pm in Parque Central, Caracas, after attending a meeting. His relatives communicated with him at the same time, during which the activist reported that he was heading to his home near Av. Fuerzas Armadas, but he never arrived.
Eduardo Torres has repeatedly been the target of threats and harassment by police officials of the Venezuelan state. As a consequence, Eduardo Torres, like the rest of PROVEA’s team, is a beneficiary of precautionary protection measures granted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). It is the responsibility of the Venezuelan State to guarantee Eduardo’s life and integrity.
ISHR and partners are deeply concerned over the high probability that Eduardo Torres is being subjected to detention and enforced disappearance due to his work as a human rights activist and the persistent threats against him. His disappearance is taking place in the context of an intensification of harassment and persecution by the Venezuelan State towards human rights defenders as an attempt by the Venezuelan government to silence the work of civil society in the aftermath of the elections of 28 July 2024.
Please take action on the right side of this page and send an email to the Permanent Missions of Venezuela to the United Nations in Geneva and New York calling on them to:
- Ensure Eduardo Torres’ life and integrity
- Immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of Eduardo Torres
- Immediately and unconditionally release every human rights defender unfairly detained in Venezuela.