UN Report Details Human Rights Violations, Torture Orders in Venezuela Under Nicolas Maduro Regime
UN Commission on crimes against humanity has presented a report about Venezuela, detailing the crimes it committed ranging from clandestine torture houses ordered by top leaders of Nicolas Maduro's regime.
Miami Herald reported that the United Nations' report recounted mock executions, rapes, and other practices during Maduro's administration.
It also includes Cubans teaching the best tormenting practice to apply to prisoners.
The report also noted that some of the crimes often came from the very top positions of the government's administration.
The UN report noted that Maduro and other people from his close circle, including other high-level authorities, participated in the choosing of the targets.
Venezuelan government intelligence agencies such as the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service and the General Directorate of Military Counter Intelligence continue to systematically use torture against its population.
The report continued to state that the torture practice continues despite "political dissidence has been largely repressed."
The document also noted that SEBIN and DGCIM were "particularly cruel" with the crimes and violations committed against defenseless people, adding that the agencies were designed to suppress dissent and consolidate power.
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UN Report on Nicolas Maduro's Regime
The recently released UN report is the third to be released by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela since 2019, according to The Washington Post report.
A Venezuelan political analyst, Enderson Sequera, said that the UN report has been the "most blunt report" when it comes to displaying those responsible for the crimes.
Manuel Ricardo Christopher Figuera, the SEBIN's former director, told investigators that "substantive orders mainly came from President Maduro."
The country's former vice president, Diosdado Cabello, was cited to have also provided a list of targets to detain, which were mainly civilians, well-known critics, and oppositions.
After providing the list of targets, the government would then bug their phones, plant evidence, and arrest them without warrants or kidnap them.
Detainees then told investigators that they were subjected to torture ranging from death threats against their families to forced feedings of feces and vomit once they were inside the prison.
Sometimes those detained would be held naked inside a cold room, under bright lights, and isolation. The report stated that those are forms of psychological abuse, which distort the senses.
UN Report on Venezuela Torture Practices
The UN Fact-Finding Mission based its findings in both reports on 245 confidential interviews, both in-person and remotely.
The interview also included the victims, their family members, and former employees of the security and intelligence services.
Chair of the UN FFMV, Marta Valiñas, said that Venezuela is "still facing a profound human rights crisis," with the report highlighting two aspects of the situation.
The FFMV has recorded 122 cases of victims who were detained by DGCUM, with 77 of whom were subjected to torture, sexual violence, and/or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
UN noted that the torture practices were done in Boleita headquarters in Caracas and other covert detention centers across Venezuela.
The UN report added that the government agencies used sexual and gender-based violence to torture and humiliate its detainees.
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Written by: Mary Webber
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