The NGOs demanded that the Venezuelan State comply with the obligations emanating from the sentence of the Inter-American Court in the case of Linda Loaiza and in all the recommendations derived from the systems for the protection of human rights and women’s rights.
86 non-governmental organizations and 105 personalities expressed their solidarity with the activist and lawyer Linda Loaiza Lopezwho renounced a contractual relationship with the Metropolitan University (Unimet) after the honorary doctorate that said house of studies delivered in recent days to the historian Germán Carrera Damas, uncle of his attacker.
In a statement, the NGOs recalled that the historian Carrera Damas is the uncle of Luis Carrera Almoina, guilty of physically, sexually and psychologically assaulting Loaiza, “and brother of his father, Gustavo Luis Carrera Damas, who supported and covered up such attacks.” .
“Linda Loaiza’s attacker acted with total impunity thanks to his connections with the political and academic elite to which the Carrera Damas brothers still belong (…) To date, Germán Carrera Damas has not ruled on anything that happened, although the case constitutes part of the recent collective history of our country, and despite the fact that the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Linda Loaiza against Venezuela constitutes an unprecedented historical milestone”, the NGOs pointed out.
They also highlighted the demand of Loaiza, whom they qualify as an international reference for women’s rights, to the Venezuelan State before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDH Court).
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In 2018, this international court determined that Venezuela was responsible for failing to comply with its obligations to prohibit torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and for not carrying out the investigation of its case promptly.
And it is that the case of Linda Loaiza in the country faced delays, pressure, destruction of evidence, deferrals and inhibitions, since it passed through the hands of 97 judges and 16 prosecutors in a period of six years. The crimes of rape, homicide qualified in degree of frustration and torture were never sanctioned.
The NGOs not only expressed their support for Linda Loaiza’s struggle for more than 22 years to find justice inside and outside Venezuela, as well as her decision to abandon the project that it was advancing with Unimet, which they urged to give “real meaning” to its efforts to “solidify its institutionality” and the search for “democratic freedoms.”
In addition, they demanded that the Venezuelan State comply with the obligations emanating from the sentence of the Inter-American Court in the case of Linda Loaiza and in all the recommendations derived from the systems for the protection of human rights and women’s rights.
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