Defence lawyers of Eligio Cedeño
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2010-045-002
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2010
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 6.42375
Longitude: -66.58973
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Venezuela
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Dates of prior UN action
- 16 December 2009
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
introduced the United Nations experts’ opinion at the hearing before Judge Afiuni on 10 December 2009, following which Cedeño was conditionally released after almost three years in detention without trial
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: thematic
- Dates of engagement
- 10 December 2009
- Type of attempted engagement
- Other
- Reprisal information
Chávez also suggested that Mr. Cedeño’s defence attorneys had engaged in criminal conduct in requesting his release. It is also feared that Mr. Cedeño’s Venezuelan defence lawyers are under imminent threat of arrest.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Defamation / Defamation campaign
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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