The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its “rejection of the request for arrest issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Maduro dictatorship” against the winner of the presidential elections on July 28, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia”, and alerted the international community “about a wave of radicalization of the regime which seeks to criminalize Venezuelan democratic forces.”
They also denounced that Venezuela is experiencing “a context of massive human rights violations in the face of popular protests unleashed after a gross electoral fraud” and accused the Maduro government of trying to “curtail the fight for democracy and freedom, persecuting opposition leaders, who are victims of ruthless political persecution, violating all their fundamental rights in a framework of state terrorism.”
The statement released tonight by the portfolio that he leads Diana Mondino He assured that the Argentine Republic “will not remain indifferent to the infamous actions of the Maduro dictatorship” and guaranteed that “it will continue to support its people in their battle to recover democracy.”
Venezuela ordered the arrest of Edmundo González Urrutia
The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office released on its social networks a copy of the request to a court with jurisdiction in terrorism of the “arrest warrant against citizen Edmundo González Urrutia” for alleged election-related crimes, including “disobedience of laws”, “conspiracy”, “usurpation of functions” and “sabotage”.
González Urrutia, 75, was summoned to testify before the prosecutor’s office on three occasions. He did not attend, although the third summons coincided with a power outage across the country on Friday, August 30.
The diplomat – in hiding since July 30 – argued that The Public Prosecutor’s Office acted as a “political accuser” which would subject him to a process “without guarantees of independence and due process.” Maduro has called for jail time for González Urrutia and the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, also in hiding.
Venezuela: Edmundo González Urrutia’s spokesman arrested
Days ago, Nicolas Maduro reported that Blagio Pilierispokesman for former opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, He was arrested in the last few hoursThe opposition leader was accused of interfering in “ activities that promote ignorance of the authorities of their country“.
Through state television, the Venezuelan president provided details of Pilieri’s arrest: “Today he is arrested by order of the Prosecutor’s Officefor being one of the main instigators to ignore the Public Powers.” In light of this, the opposition coalition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) highlighted that the opponent is allegedly at the headquarters of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin), in Caracas.
Venezuelan opposition leaders have denounced in recent hours that the leaders Biagio and Jesús Pilieri had been kidnapped and blamed the government of Nicolás Maduro. For its part, the government confirmed the arrest of the spokesman, accused of having been involved in “activities that promote the disregard of the authorities of his country”“.
Source: Ambito
