US EditionVenezuela to investigate Bukele, other officials for alleged detainee abuse
VENEZUELA, JUL 21 – Venezuela opened a probe after 123 abuse complaints surfaced from migrants deported by the US and detained in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, citing international human rights laws.
- On Monday, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced an investigation targeting President Nayib Bukele, Justice Minister Gustavo Villatoro and Head of Prisons Osiris Luna Meza over alleged abuse of 252 Venezuelan migrants.
- Under international treaties, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab is empowered to open this investigation based on the United Nations Convention against Torture and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
- Migrants described pellet shots, cuts and rotten prison food, with some alleging sexual abuse and other mistreatment, as victims detailed torture methods.
- Saab called on the International Criminal Court, the UN Human Rights Council and other bodies to act, while El Salvador has yet to respond to the allegations.
- Ongoing ICC scrutiny of Venezuela for prisoner torture raises stakes for its new investigation, potentially inviting reciprocal scrutiny.
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Caracas. Sexual abuse, daily beatings, rotten food... The government of Nicolás Maduro denounced yesterday “tortures” to Venezuelan migrants sent by the United States to the megacarcel for gang members of El Salvador.
An investigation was opened by the prosecutor and aimed at Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and other members of his government, accused by Venezuela of crimes against humanity.
On Friday, July 18, 252 Venezuelans who remained kidnapped at the Center for the Confining of Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador were rescued by the Venezuelan government, after living one of the darkest chapters. READ ALSO: Nicolás Maduro: «There is no reason to kidnap a boy or a girl» Under the administration of President Donald Trump, Venezuelan migrants were deported to El Salvador and imprisoned in the CECOT, without some having committed cri…
Caracas, Venezuela.- The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek Saab, said Monday that his office will investigate the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and two other officials for alleged abuses against Venezuelans who were detained in the Central American country. More than 250 Venezuelans imprisoned in the Salvadoran prison CECOT returned to Venezuela on Friday, pursuant to an exchange of prisoners agreed with the United States. Detainees…
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