“They are innocent, they are innocent,” is heard in a video, in Barinas, published by the National Union of Press Workers, where relatives attacked two vehicles to try to prevent their relatives from being taken to other detention centers. Foro Penal said that the By not informing the detainees and their families where they would be transferred, the authorities “are violating article 44, paragraph 2 of the Constitution.”
Several people arrested in the context of the post-election protests were transferred to other detention centers on Friday, August 30. In Barinas, relatives, without being informed, tried to prevent two buses from leaving with a group of detainees.
“They are innocent, they are innocent,” is heard in the video published by the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP). Relatives attacked the vehicles to try to prevent their relatives from being taken to other places.
The SNTP reported that in the early hours of August 30, one of those transferred from Barinas is photojournalist Yousner Alvarado, who was arrested on July 29 while covering a demonstration in that same city.
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The union also recalled that August 30 marks one month since the arrest of Paul León, a VPI cameraman and Social Communication thesis student. “He was taken out of Trujillo on Sunday the 25th and his family still does not know where he is. We demand justice for Yousner, for Paul and for all the detained reporters,” the organization wrote in X.
Penal Forum reported other transfers in Nueva Esparta.Relatives do not know where they are being takenthey indicate that the plane is ready for transfer out of Margarita Island,” he posted on the social network X.
The organization said it reminded authorities that by not informing the detainees and their families where they would be transferred, “they are violating Article 44, paragraph 2 of the Constitution.”
They also violate Article 2 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure by preventing detainees from appointing lawyers they trust as their defense attorneys. “Such practices have been occurring in most cases of detentions in the post-election context,” says Foro Penal.
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