US EditionVenezuela Parliament Unanimously Approves Amnesty Law
The law excludes those involved in armed or foreign-backed actions and applies retroactively to 1999, with over 600 political prisoners still detained, NGO Foro Penal said.
- On Thursday, Venezuela's National Assembly unanimously approved an amnesty law, and interim president Delcy Rodríguez signed it at the Miraflores presidential palace, Caracas.
- Retroactive to 1999, the law covers events from the 2002 oil strike to the 2024 riots, while families of political prisoners held vigils outside prisons and a hunger-striking group in Caracas ended their nearly weeklong protest Thursday.
- Article 9 of the bill excludes persons prosecuted for promoting armed actions, while Foro Penal reports about 450 released but more than 600 still detained amid torture claims by family members.
- UN human rights experts urged restricting the law to victims, while Gonzalo Himiob of Foro Penal said the Assembly has a chance to demonstrate genuine reconciliation.
- Hundreds, perhaps thousands jailed in recent years, while on Wednesday the chief of the US military command met in Caracas with Rodríguez, Vladimir Padrino, and Diosdado Cabello amid US President Donald Trump's consent to Rodríguez's government.
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Opposition deputy Henrique Capriles said the amnesty law should close the chapter of "persecution and repression" in Venezuela.
"The law on democratic coexistence has been adopted," said the president of the Venezuelan parliament, referring to the unanimous acceptance of the amnesty bill.
The National Assembly (AN) finally passed on Thursday the Amnesty Law for the Democratic Coexistence whose delay had begun to generate concern inside and outside Venezuela. The ruling party and the opposition ended up raising their hands together and the "president in charge," Delcy Rodríguez, immediately promulgated it. "We are leaving a little bit of intolerance and opening new avenues for politics in Venezuela, he said. The entry into force s…
Managing President Delcy Rodriguez holds up an approved amnesty law.
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