In its latest letter, the ICC Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the Venezuelan State does not offer circumstantial evidence that allows it to admit that alleged crimes against humanity are being investigated, tried and actually punished within the territory.
The Chamber of Preliminary Questions I, which hears the investigation into alleged crimes against humanity within the International Criminal Court, authorized this Monday, April 3, to the Venezuelan government a partial response to the latest report of the ICC Prosecutor’s Office, by the British Karim Khan.
Venezuela requested the Chamber a response to this document, under the allegation that the response of the Prosecutor’s Office “raised a new issue that the State could not have reasonably anticipated.”
In particular, the administration of Nicolás Maduro asked to respond to two questions: prosecutor Khan’s assertion that his report is equivalent to the evaluation of the Preliminary Questions Chamber, and the arguments of the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the way in which “the alleged intention discriminatory would be reflected in internal procedures”.
The Pre-Trial Chamber Iin charge of Judge Péter Kóvacs, only authorized the Venezuelan government to respond to the first allegation in a document, no longer than 10 pages, which must be delivered no later than April 20.
Regarding the second reasoning, the Chamber considered that Venezuela could have anticipated a response to the arguments raised by the prosecutor in his request to resume the investigation.
In its last writtenthe ICC Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the Venezuelan State does not offer circumstantial evidence that allows admitting that alleged crimes against humanity are being investigated, tried and actually punished within the territory.
Prosecutor Karim Khan based his statement on the fact that the Venezuelan State does not have the legal structure to judge these alleged crimes against humanity, nor does it investigate the chain of command (only limited to perpetrators) and does not judge crimes based on persecution, torture, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, rape or sexual abuse, but the accusations are changed or “diluted”.
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