At the hearing in the Comodoro Py Courts, five Venezuelans denounced the persecution, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances and torture of which they were victims. The complaint against Nicolás Maduro for crimes against humanity was filed in January 2023 before the Argentine Federal Court, based on the principle of universal jurisdiction.
A group of Venezuelan victims of serious human rights violations asked Argentina’s Federal Court on Tuesday to order the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking officials for their “responsibility” in the commission of crimes against humanity in the country.
The petition to judges Pablo Bertuzzi, Leopoldo Bruglia and Mariano Llorens was supported by representatives of the Argentine Forum for the Defense of Democracy (FADD) and the Argentine Prosecutor’s Office, who also requested an arrest warrant against Minister Diosdado Cabello and the heads of the main Venezuelan security forces.
At the hearing in the Comodoro Py Courts, five Venezuelans denounced the persecution, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances and torture of which they were victims.
“Maduro commits crimes against humanity. That is why we are asking that an arrest warrant be issued immediately, so that the persecution in Venezuela ends,” said Victor Navarro, who was detained in El Helicoide.
Mariangel Navas said that “in Venezuela people are tortured, kidnapped and killed for thinking differently. That is why we are asking in Argentina that those responsible for the Nicolás Maduro regime be called to testify and that there be justice for the victims in Venezuela.”
For his part, lawyer Tomás Farini Duggan, legal representative of FADD, stated that the Argentine justice system is “facing a historic moment” because, on the basis of universal jurisdiction of human rights, it has the possibility of ordering the arrest of “those most responsible for the worst civil-military dictatorship in the history of Latin America, which has transformed Venezuela into a synonym for diaspora, torture and death.”
He also noted that this hearing represents “a day of joy for democracies and a day of concern for dictatorships.”
The Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich; Deputy Fernando Iglesias, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies; member of the Council of the Judiciary Jimena de la Torre; and the Minister of Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Waldo Wolff.
The complaint against Nicolás Maduro for crimes against humanity was filed in January 2023 before the Argentine Federal Court, based on the principle of universal jurisdiction that allows countries to prosecute serious crimes against human rights regardless of where they were committed and the nationality of the perpetrator or victim.
The Argentine justice system has already applied this principle to open investigations into cases such as crimes against humanity committed in Spain by the Francisco Franco regime, the genocide against the Rohingya community in Myanmar, and human rights violations committed by Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
With information from Press release
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