How convenient: Venezuela withdrawing from regional human rights court

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday the South American nation is withdrawing from a regional human rights court that Latin America's leftist leaders have increasingly criticized as a pawn of Washington.

Allies of Venezuela including Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua have accused the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of improperly weighing in on disputes still being heard in domestic courts and working to undermine leftist governments.

"Venezuela is withdrawing from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, out of dignity, and we accuse them before the world of being unfit to call themselves a human rights group," Chavez said during a military ceremony.

The move came on the heels of a ruling by the court saying Venezuela had violated the rights of a man convicted of bombing diplomatic offices of Spain and Colombia in Caracas, arguing jail conditions were deplorable.

The man in question, Raul Diaz, was sentenced to nine years in prison but fled to the United States after winning a conditional release, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/25/us-venezuela-oas-idUSBRE86O03M20120725

How convenient: Venezuela withdrawing from regional human rights court

How convenient: Venezuela withdrawing from regional human rights court

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