Former Governor Henrique Capriles insisted that achieving peace in the country “requires facts that demonstrate justice and an action must be the immediate release of all political prisoners”
Presidential former candidate Henrique Capriles told Nicolás Maduro to “deepen the crisis” with new political arrests and greater human rights violations in the country.
«The government does is deepen the crisis. More prisoners, more crisis! More human rights violations, more crisis! (…) Venezuela needs concrete and real actions, no more propaganda or more political prisoners, ”Capriles said in A message In social networks, in response to the arbitrary transfer of five political prisoners from Barinas to prisons from the Miranda state.
The former governor insisted that achieving peace in the country “requires facts that demonstrate justice and an action must be the immediate release of all political prisoners”, in a position similar to the Expressed by its Union and Change party In recent days.
Recently, the mission of determining facts about Venezuela presented its latest report on the human rights situation after the presidential ones of 2024. From the UN, the experts stressed that there was a “wave of coordinated and systematic repression by the State” that aggravated the situation of human rights in the country, and still remains in 2025.
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In that sense, the mission of determination found that government repression caused at least 30 dead: 25 during the after -electoral protests of July last year and the other five after the arrests and under custody of the State. In addition, he documented the death of three more people for health reasons after being released.
The document detailed as practices of repression the arbitrary arrests, torture, sexual violence and a pattern of political persecution that differentiated women, adolescents, people from the LGBTI community, journalists and human rights defenders.
The Venezuelan Criminal Forum counted 823 political prisoners until September 15, including four teenagers and 89 foreign people. In addition, the organization stressed that they do not know the whereabouts of 42 of them, since neither their relatives and lawyers have had precision about their imprisonment site, they have not been able to visit them or talk via telephone.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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