A report from the United Nations Human Rights Office accuses Chilean security forces of serious human rights abuses against protesters over the past two months. The report, released last Friday, includes accusations of deaths, torture, sexual abuse and using excessive force. 

The report, which according to the Associated Press, drew pushback from Chilean officials, urged the government to allow for peaceful demonstrations, without threat of physical harm to protesters.

The U.N. says its team met with large numbers of local and national authorities, carried out hundreds of interviews with victims of alleged violations and spoke with police officers who had been injured during protests.

The report says police "regularly failed to distinguish between people demonstrating peacefully and violent protesters."

Chile's undersecretary of human rights for the Ministry of Justice, Lorena Recabarren, said the criticism was premature because Chilean government officials are still in the process of investigating alleged acts and punishing perpetrators, the AP reports.

"It's necessary to refine and clarify a number of statements and conclusions that, in the government’s opinion, are not adequately represented or contain misinformation," Recabarren said.