CARACAS.- Access to Justice questioned Nicolás’ proposal Maduro of a constitutional reform to include life imprisonment for the corrupt and those who commit the crime of treason.
In addition to representing a violation of human rights, the NGO emphasized, “establishing life imprisonment in a country in which there is no due process or effective judicial protection, could become a mechanism to aggravate the persecution policy”.
The organization spoke out on the night of Monday, April 15, after Maduro, in his television program “Con Maduro+”, reiterated the approach that arose after the arrest of the former Minister of Petroleum. Tareck El Aissami for the Pdvsa Cripto corruption plot.
For Acceso a la Justicia, a constitutional reform based on the sentence of life imprisonment in Venezuela is dangerous, “especially when it is intended to apply to indeterminate legal terms such as “crimes against the people.” This violates the principle of legality, that requires precision of the criminal type so that its application and interpretation is not arbitrary”.
The director of the NGO, Alí Daniels, pointed out that “In a State (Regime) where there are, to this day, missing persons, an investigation for crimes against humanity, where there is no due process or respect for the right to defense , “life imprisonment is not, nor can it be, justice.”
Maduro said on Monday the 15th that his initiative “is the proposal of a man who is at the head of the State and who is committed to the people to fight with everything against immorality and corruption.”
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For its part, the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons (OVP) sees in Nicolás’s approach Maduro an electoral intention.
“This is a smokescreen, this proposal is due to the use of disastrous punitive populism. The reason is that these types of initiatives are used by authoritarian governments to generate votes and political acceptance, especially in times of crisis like the current one, generating in the people a perception of security that is not true,” said Humberto Prado, director of the ONG.
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Source: Access to Justice / Venezuelan Prisons Observatory / Nicolás Maduro
