Create an international scaffolding to stop the advance of Lawfare against States, peoples, institutions and their leaders, agreed the Free Alex Saab Movement together with organizations and movements that demand the United States the release of the diplomat.
“The Lawfare against Venezuela: Three years after the kidnapping of diplomat Alex Saab”, held on Thursday, June 14, in the city of Caracas, was attended by Venezuelan authorities and more than 40 international guests, who discussed the role of the media in validating the use of the law for political purposes.
In the activity, the political persecutions that have been taking place in Latin America to stop the projects of change and social inclusion that are being developed in their countries were analyzed.
It addressed how the judicial guarantees of presidents, former presidents, leaders, diplomats and public officials have been systematically violated, with the consent and conspiracy of the media, judges, prosecutors and police.
This series of media and judicial actions seek to discipline a certain political bias, are known as Lawfare, and constitute a threat against peace and democracies in the world, according to the final statement of the forum.
The lawfare also constitutes one of the forms of aggression by the United States against Venezuela, having in the kidnapping of its diplomat Alex Saab, one of its most reprehensible episodes, which in turn sets a worrying precedent for the normal development of international relations.
Lawfare is a weapon that manipulates the legal sphere for political purposes, causing serious damage to the democratic system.
Case to the ICC and International Court of Justice
For this reason, the Free Alex Saab Movement, the organizations and movements agreed to raise the case of the diplomat Saab before the International Criminal Court and before the International Court of Justice, as well as to create the American Lawfare Observatory, for the study, denunciation and dismantling of this type of aggression.
Recognize the initiative to create the Continental Registry of political prisoners on May 28, 2023. Take the case of Alex Saab to the Summit of the Peoples within the framework of the CELAC-EU Meeting in Belgium on July 17 and 18, make visible with public actions, on the 16th of each month, the injustice committed against Alex Saab, and other political prisoners in the region.
In addition, propose to the regional integration organizations training courses for judges, prosecutors and other judicial officials, in the prevention and recognition of the lawfare phenomenon; and promote the formation of a body of lawyers, academics and legal scholars to debate around a legal doctrine on lawfare.
Below is the content of the audio that the diplomat Alex Saab sent to the forum, from the prison in Miami, Florida, United States.
I want to read you a letter that I sent you on the occasion of the forum today.
I thank you for honoring us with your company today in Caracas, to discuss, analyze and generate proposals that help us continue to face this immoral scourge that is Lawfare.
It would take many days to be able to tell you everything I have learned about this disastrous society that has made a pact with evil in several countries, the law and some media, but I only have 6 or 7 minutes and here where time seems frozen without ceasing to walk, sometimes with a simple story and too many days lived in fleeting 6 minutes you can tell more.
This simple story is a message from the character who has lost the most value in this Lawfare novel.
Your confusion, as well as the situation of many, is completely real.
I assure you that each line of your message could be made into a forum.
You just have to know how to look.
His name is the human being.
He asks me to tell you that he is very worried, because after so many years of lying, deceiving, slandering, and misinforming, seeking to dominate lives, he had also inadvertently managed to tame his conscience and his reason could no longer distinguish between good and evil. evil.
Says The Human Being, who at first thought what the difference, but recently they warned him that one of those Lives, even with 3 years of torture, isolation, slander and dark loneliness, had not been able to dominate her, let alone stop fighting.
The human being tells that alarmed by this failure, he went down in a rage to the 20 meters where the dark room of sand and salt was, which kept the kidnapped Lives that a madman guarded from the sea, but surprised he found that this Life had circumvented his security once Once again, I hugged 2 soft and beautiful girls who called them dad, my Charlie of 3 and a half, my Mimi of 6 no more.
The Human Being says that when he saw that this Life had a real family, he pushed away his tamed conscience and gave him a chance to speak. Life told him that, by bringing food to free beautiful blocked lives, he lost his freedom. And after seeing more than 70 tests, several confessions, and at least 5 sentences, he asked the Human Being and then what, how many more times do I have to win?
The afflicted Human Being and now without his conscience domesticated in him, claimed his partner The Law for such baseness, astonished she reminded him that she was demurely corrupt and serious, so what was once manufactured, always will be manufactured.
He went to find the media to denounce, but Carlson Tucker had left and the others told him that evil pays more.
Then The Human Being urged to free his conscience remembered a story about a Rebel Law that besides being a simple Law, was also a custom; and that, if The Lives used it without isolating themselves, without excluding themselves, and if despite all the differences they used it to dialogue, to stop conflicts, to find solutions for humanity, it would impartially be able to sit down the beings again and even the most domesticated consciences would be released again. It’s called Diplomacy, a new opportunity.
It is said in the world today that there are more than 2,500 political prisoners. With the indiscriminate increase in the use of Lawfare, I would venture to say that there are many more.
But all cases must be seen independently, because the suffering of a political prisoner and his family must be respected and not used as a title to achieve impunity.
I am sure that those who, like me, have suffered acts of physical and psychological torture just for defending just causes, or for wanting to force us to raise false accusations, or for defending the right to life, or the right to food, to health, freedom of the press or association.
It is still disappointing for us, that despite continuing to find new legal tools, these seem insufficient since the justice that is judging us seems more like a constant suicide of reason.
For this reason, for those of us who have suffered from this disease for years, what we really ask is that Diplomacy intervene so that Reason can be saved.
I have been blessed by the love, understanding, perseverance and strength of my wife, my sons and daughters and the strong support of my government; a humane government above all, that does not abandon and understands the pain because it suffered and overcame it at birth between prisons and torture, and that continues to defeat slander and persecution so that lives that were kidnapped by poverty and inequality may have hope of a dignified future with opportunities and social justice.
For a political prisoner, forgetfulness is deadly.
That is why I want to make a call in favor of all the political prisoners of the world and their families. In favor of those who feel for forgotten moments.
A call to the humanity of the governments and their counterparts to really prioritize our lives, to stop being patient with our pain, and through the dialogue that Diplomacy achieves for us to free us from the world of eternal return, let us seal our freedom and let us continue this journey towards total peace together.
