International Criminal Court rejects Maduro regime’s challenge and advances investigation for human rights violation in Venezuela

The International Penal Court (CPI) rejected in the last hours the challenge that the regime of Nicolas Mature he had made the investigation that the prosecutor’s office had opened into the systematic violation of human rights under the mandate of the Venezuelan dictator. The preliminary resolution, which is dated July 2, was only known today and will be complete on July 21, when the deadline for Venezuela present your paperwork to complete the judgment and move the indictment forward.

The pronouncement known this Monday responds to the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office International Penal Court so that the briefs presented during the incident are published with edited versions to protect victims and witnesses, among others affected.

In this sense, according to the document consulted by Infobae, the Camera who evaluated the presentations of the dictatorship decided to reject the “Resource“Of the judicial control which formulated Venezuela limit, that is to say because of its inadmissibility and because it is openly premature.

According to article 11 of the resolution, “the Chamber rejected that Article 21.3 of the Statute could serve as a legal basis for the relief sought. The Chamber indicated that the Tribunal’s legal framework provides a procedural possibility to present the type of challenges presented by Venezuela and, therefore, that there is no “gap” in the applicable law. The Chamber noted that the relevant provision is Article 18 of the Statute, although for this provision to be available, the Prosecutor must determine that there is a reasonable basis for opening an investigation. As this decision has not yet been announced, the Chamber concluded that Venezuela’s request was premature and rejected it. limit”.

To this end, the Camera The intervener determined that the prosecution will have until July 23 to complete its brief with the edited information, while protecting the identity of victims and witnesses. Meanwhile, he also gave the dictatorship until the 21st this month to present their revised claims. However, this procedure will not affect your decision not to challenge the plan. Mature Presented by Tarek William Saab, Attorney General of Venezuela.

In June, outgoing ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she intended to request a formal investigation into crimes committed by government forces in Venezuela, but was prevented from doing so at the last minute. after an intervention by the Chavist regime asking the judges to take charge of the case. The post is now in the hands of Karim Khan, who must decide, once the Venezuelan challenge process is completed, whether to request the opening of the trial.

In February 2018, the ICC opened a preliminary examination of Venezuela for alleged abuses by its security forces, both in protests that have taken place since April 2017 and in some prisons where opponents have been mistreated. Bensouda argued in November last year that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that crimes against humanity have been committed in Venezuela. In the last report made public, he referred to possible crimes of torture, sexual violence and politically motivated persecution, the victims of which are believed to be members of the opposition.

In June, after the change of prosecutor’s office, the Venezuelan opposition asked Khan to “speed up” the Venezuelan case, because “all the internal means to obtain justice have been exhausted”. Julio Borges, appointed by Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaidó, Commissioner for Foreign Relations, added: “Unfortunately, the Venezuelan justice system is part of the power structure that commits crimes.”

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