Former Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Says She Was Coerced Into Barring Machado
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Barbara Cesar Siero, former magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, claims that several of her relatives were arrested to force her to sign a document declaring the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 ineligible, before the presidential election of 2024.
A former judge of the Supreme Court of Venezuela stated on Thursday that she had been forced to sign the document declaring the opponent Maria Corina Machado ineligible in the presidential election of 2024. The party of the latter demanded an urgent investigation and the "immediate" lifting of her ineligibility.
"What my family and my sister-in-law have lived through shows conclusively how the regime used arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and cruel and inhuman treatment against my brothers and sister-in-law as a ruinous tool of coercion and political blackmail."
On Wednesday, human rights defender and former political prisoner Rosmit Mantilla published a harsh response to the complaint of former Justice Barbara César Siero, who claimed to have been coerced into signing the disqualification of Maria Corina Machado. Mantilla rejected any attempt to present the official as a victim and held her responsible for holding the judicial apparatus that now tightens her for years. “I saw the video where she was pr…
Former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice says she was coerced into barring Machado
Former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice Bárbara César Siero has alleged that the detention of two of her brothers and her sister-in-law in late 2023 was used to force her to sign the rulings that kept opposition leader María Corina Machado barred from office. She made the claims in a 43-minute video posted on YouTube on Tuesday.
Barbara César Siero, former judge of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela, denounced this Tuesday that she was coerced into signing several sentences of political disqualifications, including that of María Corina Machado, who was prevented from being a presidential candidate in the 2024 elections. Through a video and a letter published on her social networks, César Siero reported that on December 15, 2023 Machado filed his suit with t…
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