The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled that its prosecutors can resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in the South American country of Venezuela.
The court’s decision came after the investigation into torture, extrajudicial killings and other abuses was suspended at Venezuela’s request in April 2022, to allow the country to conduct its own probe.
But in a statement on Tuesday, the ICC concluded that Venezuela had fallen short in its investigation of government officials.
The court also included concerns that the Venezuelan investigation focused primarily on “lower-level perpetrators,” rather than the senior-level officials ICC prosecutors had hoped to scrutinize.
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