By Mayela Armas
CARACAS – Venezuela’s authorities rejected on Saturday a call by the prosecutor of the Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) to renew an investigation into alleged human rights violations by the South American nation’s officers.
On Tuesday, ICC Prosecutor Karim Kham utilized for authorization to proceed the investigation after he had obtained “a major quantity of knowledge offered by Venezuela thus far, in addition to different credible sources”.
However the Venezuelan authorities pushed again.
In a press release, it referred to as Kham’s imaginative and prescient “prejudiced” and vowed “to defend the reality and reveal the productive work of the authorities within the investigation of all of the complaints of significant crimes towards individuals” within the pre-trial chamber.
“It's particularly worrying that the ICC prosecutor’s request is principally based mostly on secondary sources missing any credibility,” the federal government stated in a press release printed on the overseas ministry’s official Twitter account.
It additionally accused the investigation of “marked bias and clear politicization, to the detriment of the rigor anticipated from a world occasion.”
The ICC had began a preliminary investigation in 2018; Khan stated in March that he would open an workplace within the Venezuelan capital Caracas.
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