Venezuelan Public Prosecutor's Office to Investigate Three Salvadoran Officials for Human Rights Violation

Published at: 21/07/2025 01:06 PM

The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, reported that three prosecutors with national competence have been appointed to investigate three officials from El Salvador, for the commission of crimes against the human rights of the 252 Venezuelans kidnapped in the Central American nation.

Specifically, he mentioned Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador; Héctor Gustavo Villatoro, Minister of Justice and Public Security and Osiris Mesa, director general of the penal center and Deputy Minister of Justice and Public Security.

Saab called on the International Criminal Court, the UN Human Rights Council and the corresponding bodies, “both in America and in the world, to do the same, to do the same as we as the Public Prosecutor's Office in Venezuela are doing against these three subjects and whatever they may appear to be.”

He specified that the crimes for which they will be investigated correspond to torture, cruel treatment, degrading inhuman treatment, forced disappearance and association to commit crimes, and added that investigations will be based on the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Rome Statute.”

The holder of the criminal action denounced the systematic and massive violation of human rights (Human Rights) suffered by the 252 Venezuelans kidnapped at the Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador.

“They suffered systematic torture that included daily and constant beatings (...) held in inhumane cells, without sunlight, without ventilation, with inhuman or denigrating treatment. They kneeled for hours on floors (...) they received “food in states of decay and undrinkable water that caused gastric diseases” and highlighted the violation of due process, “including interrogations without legal assistance, prohibition of contact with family members”.

Consequently, he held the Salvadoran president, Nagib Bukele, responsible for ordering “every single action outside of human rights.

Mazo News Team