Politics
Alfredo Romero, a human rights activist and member of the NGO Foro Penal Venezolano, announced on Wednesday that the civil rights group will denounce the Venezuelan government before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for political persecution of people who dissent from the revolutionary project.

"We are suffering in Venezuela a scheme that we will denounce before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, as part of the case file on political persecution through the judicial system which was opened in 2004. All those people who are involved in this persecution system will be denounced by our NGO, Romero said at a news conference.

He said that the group "expects" that the Judiciary allows them to visit Julio Rivas, a student leader of the central state of Carabobo, who was arrested and sent to a high security prison for allegedly being involved in violent actions during a march against the new education law.

Alicia De La Rosa
EL UNIVERSAL