The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela responds to the Salvadoran note indicating that it constitutes, in effect, a COnfession that expresses serious violations of International human Rights Lawas well as the commission of acts that could be typified as international criminal actions.
In this sense, Venezuela demands from the Government of El Salvador the “immediate and unconditional” liberation of the 252 Venezuelans arbitrarily detained, while responsible for any affectation to their physical and psychological integrity, as announced by the Foreign Minister Yván Gil to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador, pointing out that this action reflects serious violations of international law of human rights against the national rights against the national rights against the international rights against the international rights.
In this sense, he considers that the proposal of exchange made by El Salvador, is illegally and morally inadmissible, «by pretending to condition the liberation of innocent people to an exchange for citizens deprived of liberty in Venezuela for completely foreign reasons (commission of terrible punishable facts), without legal or ethical foundation. Taking into account additionally, that none of the detainees who mention the Salvadoran citizens, most of these Venezuelan citizens. This approach constitutes a legal, unprecedented aberration within the framework of bilateral or multilateral relations, which violates elementary principles of justice, proportionality and human dignity ».
Venezuela highlights in five points the serious crimes committed by the Government of El Salvador, by keeping Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot).
The five points are as follows:
1- Violation of the human rights of Venezuelan citizens, who have been deprived of their freedom arbitrarily and held without judicial order or prior judgment in the CECOT.
-2- Collective criminalization and institutional xenophobia, by attributing without individual evidence the linking of detainees with transnational criminal organizations.
3- Denial of the right to defense, due process and access to justice, by not guaranteeing information on charges, or access to legal assistance.
4- Proposal for illegally and morally inadmissible exchange, pretending to condition the liberation of innocent people to an “exchange” by citizens deprived of liberty in Venezuela for completely alien reasons (commission of terrible punishable acts).
5- Kidnapping and forced transfer to a third country, without court order or legal process, executed by authorities of the United States of America, who arbitrarily deported these Venezuelan citizens to the Salvadoran territory.
The Venezuelan government, finally, “demands the immediate and unconditional liberation of the 252 Venezuelan citizens arbitrarily detained in Salvadoran territory and holds the Salvadoran state responsible for any affectation to its physical and psychological integrity.”
