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The prosecution of the International Criminal Court concluded that “there is grounds” to believe that the Nicolás Maduro regime committed crimes against humanity in Venezuela.
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According to the ‘Report on preliminary examination activities 2020’ released this Monday, “after a detailed evaluation and analysis of the available information, the Prosecutor’s Office concluded that there is a reasonable basis to believe that crimes under the jurisdiction of the Court in Venezuela since at least April 2017 “.
The document recalls that “the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been under preliminary examination since February 8, 2018.”
“On February 8, 2018, the Prosecutor opened a preliminary examination of the situation in Venezuela, at least since April 2017. On September 27, 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor received a referral from a group of States Parties to the Statute, “among which are Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay and Peru,” in relation to the situation in Venezuela, “states the document, recalling that those countries requested that an investigation be initiated for “crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the territory of Venezuela since 2014, in order to determine whether one or more persons should be charged with the commission of such crimes . “
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Likewise, the ‘Report on preliminary examination activities 2020’ recalls that, in 2000, Venezuela deposited its instrument of ratification of the Statute and that, for that reason, “The ICC has jurisdiction over the crimes of the Rome Statute committed in the territory of Venezuela, or by its nationals, as of July 1, 2002 ”.
The members of the Faes hide their identity with a hood They are accused of various crimes.
The text states that “the Prosecutor’s Office has concluded that the information available at this stage provides a reasonable basis to believe that, At least since April 2017, civil authorities, members of the armed forces and individuals in favor of the Government have committed the crimes against humanity of imprisonment or other serious deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental norms of international law (…) ”, torture, rape and / or other forms of serious sexual violence
comparable, and persecution of a group or collectivity with its own identity based on political motives.
Likewise, the ICC report assures that “the information available to the Prosecutor’s Office provides a reasonable basis to believe that the members of the security forces allegedly responsible for the material commission of these alleged crimes include: the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), the Special Actions Force (Faes), the
Scientific Research Corps, Penal and Criminalistics (CICPC), the Guard
Nacional Bolivariana (GNB), the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command
(CONAS) and certain other units of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces
(FANB) “.
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(…) Civil authorities, members of the armed forces and individuals in favor of the Government have committed crimes against humanity (…)
It is also stated that the information available to the ICC “indicates that individuals in favor of the Government also participated in the repression of opponents of the Government of Venezuela, or people perceived as such, mainly acting together with members of the security forces or with Your consent”.
And it goes further, since it is said that “in relation to the alleged role of the aforementioned actors, the potential case (s) identified by the Prosecutor’s Office would not be limited to these people or groups of people and an attempt would be made to examine the alleged responsibility of those who appear to be most responsible for such crimes. “
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