US EditionVenezuela’s Parliament Is to Debate an Amnesty Bill that Could Free Hundreds
The bill excludes those convicted of violent or serious crimes and aims to address nearly 30 years of political repression, with over 400 prisoners released so far, Foro Penal said.
- On Thursday, the ruling-party National Assembly will debate an amnesty bill that could free hundreds, following the proposal by Acting President Delcy Rodríguez weeks after Nicolás Maduro's capture.
- Covering 1999 to the present, the bill aims to clear charges for political prisoners, with the National Assembly set to debate it urgently, announced by acting president Rodríguez.
- Releases have already begun as Foro Penal confirmed at least 431 freed, yet the group estimates more than 600 remain in custody despite closure of Helicoide prison, Caracas.
- At the end of the debate, lawmakers are expected to vote on passage, and if approved Jorge Rodríguez, President of the National Assembly, will sign the bill into law, triggering all political prisoners' release.
- Opposition parties and human-rights organizations express cautious optimism amid Youth Day protests, while Attorney General Tarek William Saab said, 'We deserve peace, and everything should be debated through dialogue'.
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For this Thursday, the Chavista National Assembly has promised the second approval of the bill of the so-called Amnesty Law for Democratic Coexistence, which has been the subject of consultations with professional unions, lawyers and relatives of political prisoners and, at the same time, of many criticisms by jurists. On January 30, the president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, presented to Parliament the draft of the draft with 13 bri…
Venezuela opens final phase to pass amnesty law that could free political prisoners Venezuela's parliament begins on Thursday the final debate for the approval of a general amnesty law that covers the 27 years of Chavismo and leads to massive releases of political prisoners. Amnesty is a project promoted by President Delcy Rodríguez, who took power after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. military incursion on January 3, and who rules under…
Specialists and political expressers insist that “amnesty is not forgiveness”, it is forgetfulness and reparation, so the project emanating from the National Assembly, with the legal gaps and accusations that it gives as affirmatives, contradicted the nature of that legal institution. Caracas. While the Venezuelan Parliament unanimously approved a draft law of [...] The entry Freeing political prisoners is not to forgive but to recognize innocen…
DOBLE LLAVE – The National Assembly and the Program for Coexistence and Peace of Venezuela assured that they will continue to receive proposals from relatives of political prisoners in the context of public consultations on the amnesty bill, proposed by the president-in-charge, Delcy Rodríguez. The program coordinator, Ernesto Villegas, indicated that on Wednesday the meetings will continue after a first day at the legislative headquarters where…
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