Prosecutor Tarek William Saab rejects UN High Commissioner's report

Published at: 27/06/2025 09:05 PM

This Friday, June 27, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, issued an official statement to categorically reject the recent oral report presented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN), considering that it is a new diplomatic and interventionist aggression against Venezuelan sovereignty and justice system.

On his account on the social network Instagram, Saab published the aforementioned statement, in which it is emphasized that the report reflects a profoundly biased view, deliberately ignoring institutional advances in the defense of fundamental rights and the exercise of criminal action against those who have committed serious crimes that threaten the peace of the Nation.

Saab said that “the Office of the High Commissioner has become the private firm of domestic and foreign terrorists and mercenaries, prosecuted for trying to bathe Venezuela in blood through assassination plans, selective assassinations, sabotage and armed conspiracies: Instead of fulfilling its mandate, this office cynically aligns itself with the perpetrators of these crimes.”

It also denounces that several convicted and confessed individuals are presented as victims, distorting the legal reality of Venezuela. “Everyone is legally deprived of liberty, with respect for due process, for crimes such as conspiracy, treason, terrorism and money laundering,” he said.

He believes that describing these arrests as arbitrary demonstrates “the High Commissioner's complicity with factors that have threatened national stability, at such a turning point that his' Office 'today acts as a vulgar appendix to foreign intelligence agencies, under the guise of human rights discourse”.

Saab also expressed its repudiation of the silence it has maintained in the face of the kidnapping and incommunicado detention of 252 Venezuelans in El Salvador, without the right to due process and without minimum guarantees.

In this regard, he urged “the National Assembly to open a public debate on the permanence of Venezuela in the UN Human Rights Council, a forum that has been denaturalized and used as an instrument of political persecution, in open violation of the principle of self-determination of peoples.”

Mazo News Team