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Aligarh. Syed Kaif Hasan, an alumni of the Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University practicing at the Supreme Court of India on 7th January 2026 submitted a memorandum to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. He has also sent a copy for information under Article 15, Rome Statute, to the Office of the Prosecutor International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands.
Hasan claiming in his individual capacity as an international lawyer and as a concerned member of the global civil society committed to the preservation of the United Nations Charter system, has pointed out that the United State of America through aerial incursions and bombardment entering the Venezuelan airspace has violated through use of external force, coercive regime change, economic and military pressure the overriding the freely expressed political will of a people.
Hasan has accused the United States of America of targeting, prosecuting, and abducting a sitting Head of a sovereign State, a clear violation of the right of the Venezuelan people to self-determination enshrined in Article 1(2) of the UN Charter and directly hitting common Article 1 of the ICCPR and ICESCR.
Allegedly there are civilian casualties brings forth the applicability of international humanitarian law. The United States of America with its directed against civilians or civilian objects constitutes war crimes under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Venezuela, being a State Party to the Rome Statute, confers territorial jurisdiction upon the Court irrespective of the nationality of the alleged perpetrators.
In light of his contention he has requested the relevant United Nations Special Rapporteurs, including those on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, extrajudicial executions, unilateral coercive measures, and the right of peoples to self-determination, to take cognizance of the information provided, seek clarifications from the Government of the United States of America, and place these concerns on the official record of the United Nations.
