The US State Department published its annual report on human rights, in which it denounced that the Maduro regime keeps “hundreds” of prisoners in jail for political reasons, many of them in “critical” conditions.
On the night of this Thursday, April 14, the Nicolás Maduro administration, through a statement posted on the Twitter account of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic, responded to the most recent report from the United States Department of State on human rights; to which he points out “repeated practice of qualifying the policies of other countries in this matter without any technical rigor or credibility.”
«The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, once again, categorically rejects the report on human rights of the Department of State of the United States of America, as well as the repeated practice of qualifying the policies of other countries in this matter without any technical rigor or credibility,” says the statement from the Foreign Ministry.
#RELEASE| Venezuela rejects Human Rights report from the US State Department#14April pic.twitter.com/JEclUAQadZ
– Venezuelan Foreign Ministry ?? (@CancilleriaVE) April 14, 2022
“Hundreds” of prisoners for “political” motivations
On April 12, the US State Department published its annual report on human rightsin which he denounced that the Maduro regime keeps “hundreds” of prisoners in jail for political reasons, many of them in “critical” conditions.
The report also noted the harsh and life-threatening prison conditions that political prisoners in Venezuela live in, where they are subjected by “regime-aligned authorities to suffocation, electric shocks, broken bones…”
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In the document related to 2021, he mentioned that “the Maduro regime used the judicial power to intimidate and prosecute people critical of the policies or actions of the regime”, in this sense, they presented figures from the organization Criminal Forumaccording to which, last October, there were 260 political prisoners in the country, 50 of them “in critical health conditions.”
The bald gallon and the US blockade
Miraflores’ response points out as “serious” that the US government “manipulates” with issues related to human rights in order to put “its political interests” first.
“The US government can be of little interest in the rights of a people that it submits to unilateral coercive measures and a criminal economic blockade,” says the undiplomatic letter.
Later it warns of a campaign by the State Department to create a “false narrative,” which seeks to “overshadow the achievements of the Bolivarian Government in guaranteeing human, political, economic, and social rights, even under the most severe aggression.”
CPI Office in Venezuela
On March 31, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, visited Venezuela, met with Nicolás Maduro and announced that would open an office of this organization in the country.
In November 2021, the ICC opened a formal investigation for alleged crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela as of 2017, in the framework of anti-government demonstrations and security operations.
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