The public defender, Daniel Ramírez, filed an appeal before the Constitutional Review Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice regarding a decision issued on February 2 by an appeals court in the state of Lara, in which “the right to work and to the study of those deprived of liberty.”
Ramírez explained that the decision of the appeals court would have agreed to “a work detachment and judicial redemptions,” annulling the constitutional right to work and study, under an erroneous interpretation of article 488 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure and the sentences binding of the Constitutional Chamber itself.
He said that if there are indeed “serious crimes that must be considered for the trial of these prisoners, their right to defense, work and that they have the option of redeeming the sentence must also be guaranteed.”
In that sense, he celebrated the intention to defend the aforementioned rights because “we achieved that through this activity (revision appeal) the Constitution of Venezuela guarantees the constitutional principles and guarantees established in it.”
On the other hand, he welcomed the recent election of justices of the peace, recognizing the work carried out by judges Caryslia Rodríguez and Tania D’Amelio, president and vice president of the TSJ, respectively, during the electoral process that he mentioned fulfills “a constitutional mandate.” .
Ramírez expressed that “we already have justices of the peace elected at the national level, which will allow justice to be humanized through a process of conciliation, mediation and arbitration and avoid cases of patrimonial or personal differences in the communities.”
