In a message posted through her social networks, the opposition leader said that the report is a record for history that confirms the magnitude of the sufferings inflicted on thousands of Venezuelan families
The opposition leader María Corina Machado said that the new report of the mission of determining the facts of the United Nations (UN) is “a cry for help.”
In a message posted through its social networks, Machado said that the report is a record for history that confirms the magnitude of the sufferings inflicted on thousands of Venezuelan families.
«This report is not just a document, it is a cry for help and a record for history. The evidence is overwhelming and the world already knows it, “he said and warned that” there will be no impunity for those who torture or for those who give the orders of doing so, nor for those who embrace them. “
Machado stressed that the report of the mission “is unequivocal” by confirming that in Venezuela “crimes against humanity are committed.”
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“Our citizen, our young people, women, men, are taken to torture centers, including clandestine houses where they are held incommunicado for months,” he said. In these places, he continued, “torture includes electrical discharges in genitals, suffocation, prolonged insulation” and a punishment cells of a square meter in inhuman conditions.
The political leader expressed her conviction that the report represents a significant advance towards the achievement of justice and a future political change in the country. The leader’s message concluded with a declaration of faith in which “freedom will soon arrive in Venezuela.”
The 172 pages document describes Serious Human Violationsas arbitrary arrests of adults and adolescents, torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, forced disappearances and deaths of protesters. The update also records restrictions on civic space, criminalization of digital expression; highlighting patterns of sexual and gender violence against political prisoners and their relatives.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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