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The Government of Switzerland has added 11 Venezuelan officials to its list of sanctions, said a statement from the State Secretariat for the Economy, including Vice President Delcy Eloína Rodríguez, and vice-president of Economy With the measure, Switzerland ratifies the decision of the European Union, which, on June 25, sanctioned the same official 11 of the government of Nicolás Maduro.
The list also includes Rodríguez and El Aissami, Sergio José Rivero Marcano, Inspector General of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces; Jesús Rafael Suárez Chourio, commander-in-chief of the army; Iván Hernández Dala, Head of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence; Elías José Jaua Milano, Minister of Education; Sandra Oblitas, Vice-President of the National Electoral Council; Socorro Elizabeth Hernández Hernández, Rector of the CNE; Xavier Antonio Moreno Reyes, Secretary General of the CNE; Freddy Alirio Bernal Rosales, Director of Local Supply and Production Committees, and Katherine Nayarith Harrington Padrón, Deputy Attorney General.
On March 28, the Swiss government took action against seven officials: Néstor Luis Reverol Torres, Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace; Gustavo Enrique González López, Director of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service; Tibisay Lucena Ramírez, President of the CNE; Antonio José Benavides Torres, Head of the Capital District Government; Maikel José Moreno, President of the Supreme Court of Justice; Tarek William Saab Halabi, Attorney General of the Republic, and Diosdado Cabello Rondón, President of the Constituent National Assembly.
The restrictive measures "were decreed for violation of human rights and the rule of law, as well as for the erosion of democratic institutions," the statement added
The 28 officials were frozen assets and economic resources, if they had any, and forbidding them to enter and travel across the European country.
Report More Torture in International Criminal Court
The Czech Institute of Human Rights, Casla, who filed several complaints of torture against the Government of Venezuela in court International Criminal Court, asked this court to send a field mission to collect data for their research.
The director of the specialized center in Latin America, lawyer Tamara Sujú, explained that the claim is based on Torture was repeated in the case of some detainees
Sujú, with asylum in the Czech Republic, has submitted since May 2016 four documents alleging torture, allegedly inflicted on more than 600 people
. lawyer yesterday delivered to the ICC a fifth sheet with 16 other incidents of torture on 44 direct victims, particularly military and some civilians related to them.
On the new sheet, Sujú stated that "in several cases the crime of sexual violence prevails, with rape and several attempts to rape."
This violence, which involves putting pins and d & # 39; other metal objects in the nipples or testicles of the inmates or tearing the soles of the feet, is used "to obtain false accusations against"
He also filed three complaints concerning the enforced disappearance of persons, as well as against the new Leader of the Opposition. command responsible for torture during 2018.
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