{"id":129937,"date":"2022-11-15T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129937"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:19:46","slug":"venezuela-rejects-biased-decision-to-resume-icc-probe-into-alleged-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/15\/venezuela-rejects-biased-decision-to-resume-icc-probe-into-alleged-human-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Rejects \u2018Biased\u2019 Decision to Resume ICC Probe into Alleged Human Rights Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Venezuelanalysis<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Caracas stated that it would continue &#8220;to defend the truth\u201d and move forward with legal proceedings in cases of possible human rights violations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caracas, November 7, 2022 (<a href=\"https:\/\/venezuelanalysis.com\/\">venezuelanalysis.com<\/a>) \u2013 The Venezuelan government rejected the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan\u2019s announcement to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses committed by state security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela regrets that, despite all the information provided and the fluid exchanges with the ICC throughout the year, prosecutor Karim Khan maintains a clearly biased view in relation to the situation in Venezuela, echoing campaigns that seek to instrumentalize justice and human rights issues for political purposes,\u201d read a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fariacrt\/status\/1589011741253709825\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;released on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The communique, published by Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Far\u00eda, likewise expressed concern that the ICC prosecutor&#8217;s request to continue the suspended probe is basically based on secondary sources lacking any credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caracas stated that it would push back against the probe&#8217;s resumption in the ICC\u2019s pre-trial chamber &#8220;to defend the truth and demonstrate the productive work of the authorities in the investigation of all the complaints of serious crimes against people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venezuelanalysis.com\/news\/15641\">Venezuela Rejects \u2018Biased\u2019 Decision to Resume ICC Probe into Alleged Human Rights Abuses | Venezuelanalysis.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Venezuelanalysis Caracas stated that it would continue &#8220;to defend the truth\u201d and move forward with legal proceedings in cases of possible human rights violations. Caracas, November 7, 2022 (venezuelanalysis.com) \u2013 The Venezuelan government rejected the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan\u2019s announcement to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}