Cabello’s response to Karim Khan about the detained children
The Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, assured on Wednesday that there are no children detained in the country, in response to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan.who insisted on “the need to protect the rights of civilians, including children, and to release those detained for political reasons.”
«We do not have children imprisoned here, Mr. Karim Khan. “They gave you wrong information and you are giving statements on wrong bases,” Cabello said in his program. With the gavel giving.
The minister criticized that Khan “does not say anything” about Israel, which – he said – “murders” children in Palestine, while calling the ICC arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom the senior The court points out, along with former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as those most responsible for the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.
After the presidential elections of July 28 in Venezuela, more than 2,400 people were arrested, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, in the context of protests against the official result announced by the country’s electoral body, which gave re-election to Nicolás Maduro, a victory that Democratic Unitary Platform considers “fraudulent.”
Among those detained, the NGO Foro Penal counted more than a hundred minors between 14 and 17 years old – data later confirmed by relatives – of whom – sources say – 48 remain imprisoned.
In September, the UN Fact-Finding Mission for Venezuela assured that “at least 158 children”, some with disabilities, were detained in the first days of the protests and were accused of “serious” crimes, such as terrorism or incitement to hate.
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