He Human Rights Committee of the UN opened an investigation against Nicolas Maduro for alleged electoral fraud in the elections in Venezuela last July.
In turn, Paulo Abraoformer executive secretary of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission He demanded that the minutes of the scrutiny be preserved in order to move forward with the case. They requested that “the State party refrain from destroying the electoral material of the presidential elections” in order to “prepare the record of totalization, adjudication and proclamation.”
The presentation was filed in Washington D.C. and denounces massive electoral fraud, lack of transparency, restriction on voting abroad, obstruction of citizen control and suppression of access to justice in Venezuela.
The lawyers in charge of the case assured that the investigation is a “crucial advance in the fight for democracy and human rights in Venezuela” and announced that “it will probably conclude with a very important and historic international decision that will confirm that Nicolás Maduro is not the elected president of Venezuela.”
The complaint “alleges violations of political rights to the detriment of an ordinary Venezuelan (non-candidate), a member of a group of millions of Venezuelan men and women whose human rights have been violated by the electoral fraud that Nicolas Maduro “it intends to consummate on January 10, 2025.” Furthermore, they warned that there was a “systematic pattern of ignorance of the popular will expressed in the vote, when the electoral results do not favor Nicolás Maduro and his allies.”
Ignacio Álvarez Martínez, one of the lawyers, is Venezuelan and resident in the US and denounced that the deprivation of the vote was common abroad. He stated that it is estimated that there were 5.5 million of people living outside the country qualified to vote, that is, a quarter of the electorate.
The Government denounced Venezuela before the International Criminal Court
In parallel, the Argentine government this afternoon presented a complaint against Venezuela before the International Criminal Court for siege and threats towards asylum seekers who are in the Embassy in Caracas.
The presentation was made by the Argentine ambassador to the Netherlands, Mario Javier Oyarzabalwho denounced the Venezuelan government for cutting off the electricity and gas to the diplomatic residence, and, in addition, surrounding the building with political groups of the Venezuelan regime.
Source: Ambito
