Human Rights Defense Organizations denounced this Friday the detention of the Colombian-Venezuelan activist Martha Lía Grajales, shortly after participating in a demonstration in front of the United Nations headquarters in Caracas, in support of relatives of political prisoners.
The information was confirmed by Prova, which through its social network X warned: “Martha Lía Grajales, an activist of emerging was arrested minutes ago after participating in a concentration in support of the mothers attacked by paramilitary groups last Tuesday against the TSJ (Supreme Court of Justice)”.
According to the NGOagents of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) arrested Grajales, who was born in Colombia and has Venezuelan nationality, in a control installed a few meters from the place of the concentration, and then forced her to climb a gray truck without plates.
He Committee for the freedom of political prisoners He said: “This arrest occurs a few days after Martha Lía was a victim of physical aggressions by armed groups not identified during the vigil convened by the Mothers Committee in Defense of Truth.”
On Tuesday, about 50 people, most of them detainees after the July 2024 elections, They organized a vigil in front of the TSJ To demand the release of their relatives, at a year after their arrest.
However, a group of approximately 70 people, known as parapolial groups and related to the government, violently dispersed the concentration, the NGO emerging.
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