Venezuelan lawyer denounces Nicolas Maduro's regime in the International Criminal Court for torturing political prisoners

The Venezuelan lawyer Tamara Sujú presented to International Penal Court (ICC), in The Hague, several complaints against Nicolás Madur's dietor Among the evidence is the systematic manner in which Chavismo tortures prisoners.

"Nelson Martínez was very ill and had a particular physical condition. He has never received punctual medical attention.. He asked for his transfer for 10 days, because he felt very bad about these already tested conditions and the great Arteaga refused him the transfer to the hospital. He said it was a show of what he was doing. In 10 days, the situation was worse and the tenth day, I could not breathe. When Major Arteaga realized that Nelson Martinez could no longer breathe, he was taken to the hospital because he did not want him to die in his cell. That's how the death of Nelson Martinez happened, "said the lawyer, on the periphery of the court, in a video posted on social networks.

In addition, among the evidence presented, Sujú exposed the deplorable conditions in which the rest of the political prisoners and common law prisoners are in Venezuela.

"I have also reported cases of torture every day more and more serious and more and more cruel, where there are not only hangings, but also electric shocks, asphyxiation, in addition to the Rajan, put them in holes where there are sharp stones In addition, they inject drugs and all this is corroborated by the complaint of Lieutenant Dugarte. Ronald Dugarte he sent to the Court his written testimony of his own writing, where he speaks of the chain of command of the torturers, the methods used by the torturers, where he speaks of the identity of the victims and the perpetrators, "said the responsible lawyer

The lawyer also said that the Maduro regime had a typical behavior of detainees: lack of medical care and lack of supplies for doctors, it means that patients are not well cared for. "EIt is a torture, a means of inflicting suffering on the detainees, which is why we are arguing in court."he added.

Sujú also denounced the severe repression suffered by the indigenous Pemón people, who had to flee the Chavist violence in the municipality of Roraima, Brazil.

"Because of the systematic persecution against the Pemon people, we denounced the testimony that a Boa Vista doctor gave me, the dead, the wounded," he said.

Finally, the lawyer presented evidence of how Cuban agents had trained Cuban intelligence agents to suppress and persecute the Venezuelan army and control the population.