A panel of UN experts said the way the recent presidential vote was carried out “had no precedent.” Meanwhile, the UN human rights chief has raised alarm over detentions and use of force in the election’s aftermath.

A UN panel has concluded that Venezuela’s election council failed to demonstrate “basic transparency and integrity” in how it processed the results of the country’s contested presidential election.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July 28 poll, but is yet to give a detailed breakdown of the vote.

The opposition claims to have tally sheets showing that its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, had won by a wide margin.

The disputed results of the election have plunged the Latin American nation into a state of turmoil.