Luis Almagro demanded the immediate release of the teenagers detained during the post-election protests and that the torture stop
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, issued a statement this Thursday, October 10, in which he reproaches in “the strongest terms the atrocities” that the administration of Nicolás Maduro committed against minors after the post-election protests, emphasizing that the minors were illegally detained.
In the text, Almagro warned that the actions by the State security forces against the adolescents contravene all international conventions on human rights and “lowering their limits of humanity and decency to the worst levels of barbarism.”
For the representative of the OAS, these human rights violations in Venezuela against adolescents show patterns of seriousness in this sense and that is why he stressed that the international community must ensure that these acts are punished and, in that sense, he asserted that they will continue to adopt measures to ensure that the weight of the law is applied to them.
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Likewise, he pointed out that these actions are also part of a new “legal dimension” of responsibility of the Venezuelan authorities, referring to audios and reports that come from the detention centers where these minors who are subjected to humiliation and torture are held; which in his opinion are sufficient argument to request that this situation end.
Luis Almagro then demands that these teenagers be released immediately, the torture be put to an end and that all those responsible be brought to justice.
General Secretariat of the OAS repudiates the kidnapping and torture of minors by the Venezuelan regimehttps://t.co/53Rwku4SMZ pic.twitter.com/JBJUB5VFzS
— Luis Almagro (@Almagro_OEA2015) October 10, 2024
Almagro’s pronouncement is recorded after that of Orlando Viera-Blancowho served as ambassador of the so-called interim government to Canada, went this Thursday, October 10, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to record new incidents related to the alleged commission of crimes against humanity that increases the number of events being investigated in the “Venezuela I” case.
Through his social networks, Viera-Blanco explained that he brought about 85 new incidents to the ICC headquarters, linked to the arbitrary arrests, imprisonment and forced disappearance of adolescents after the July 28 elections. He explained that testimonies were collected from mothers and others affected, along with reports containing the suicide attempt of an imprisoned minor.
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On the other hand, the organization Foro Penal published updated figures on the situation of political prisoners in the country. Until on Monday, October 7 There were 1,916 detainees for political reasons, including 70 adolescents between 14 and 17 years of age.
Since the first week of October, as detailed in a publication, the Penal Forum registered 11 people who have been detained in the context of the post-election protests, in rejection of the announcement made by the National Electoral Council about the victory of Nicolás Maduro in the elections. elections on July 28.
The NGO has recorded 1,784 arrests since July 29 throughout the country, the highest number of arrests in the context of political demonstrations so far this century. Two releases were also recorded, although no further details were provided.
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