{"id":155110,"date":"2026-02-05T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/155110-venezuela-proposed-amnesty-law-will-not-cover-serious-violations-of-human-rights.html"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:08:02","slug":"venezuela-proposed-amnesty-law-will-not-cover-serious-violations-of-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/155110-venezuela-proposed-amnesty-law-will-not-cover-serious-violations-of-human-rights.html","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela proposed amnesty law will not cover 'serious violations' of human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             Venezuela's parliament on Thursday started weighing an amnesty law whose long-awaited draft text showed it would not cover \"serious violations\" of human rights committed under 27 years of socialist rule.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The bill is an initiative of interim president Delcy Rodriguez, who stepped into the shoes of Nicolas Maduro after he was deposed in a US military operation a month ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Rodriguez, who has been working with US President Donald Trump on access to Venezuelan oil, has been under pressure to free political prisoners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            It was not immediately clear if the \"Amnesty Law for Democratic Coexistence\" was designed to benefit political prisoners, state agents or both.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            \"It is recognized that it is important not to impose vengeance, retaliation or hatred, but to open a path toward reconciliation,\" said the text, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            \"Excluded from its benefits\" are offenses such as \"serious violations of human rights, crimes against humanity, war crimes, intentional homicide, corruption, and drug trafficking,\" it added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Experts fear the text is sufficiently vague to allow discretion in a judicial system widely considered to be loyal to the ruling \"Chavista\" movement named after Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is investigating crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Venezuela during Maduro's government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela's parliament on Thursday started weighing an amnesty law whose long-awaited draft text showed it would not cover \"serious violations\" of human rights committed under 27 years of socialist rule. 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