Foreigners held in El Rodeo I prison, in the state of Miranda, face cruel treatment, threats and systematic violations of their human rights. This was reported by María Alexandra Gómez, partner of the Argentine gendarme Nahuel Agustín Gallo.
Through social networks, Gómez stated that he has received information that points to the existence of psychological violence, death threats and detention conditions that he described as illegal and arbitrary.
The detainees They remain isolated and incommunicado from their families for long periods, without access to basic guarantees, he assured.
The complainant attributed these practices to the conduct of prison guards and authorities, and directly questioned the director of the detention center, whom she blamed for allowing degrading treatment against people deprived of liberty. “Exercising power over isolated people without contact with their families is not a sign of strength, but of inhumanity,” he said.
They warn about prison conditions in El Rodeo I
In his public statement, Gómez pointed directly to Nicolás Maduro, the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello; to Attorney General Tarek William Saab, and to the director of El Rodeo I as responsible for any damage that his partner or other foreigners held in that penitentiary center may suffer.
He reiterated that Nahuel Agustín Gallo is innocent and denounced that his permanence in conditions of forced disappearance constitutes a crime against humanity. After 379 days of detention, he assured that he will maintain the complaint permanently until he is released and safely returned to his home.
Added to these accusations were those of other relatives of foreign prisoners, who warned that officials from the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) had threatened to kill detainees, including foreign citizens, in the event that the United States carried out an attack against Venezuela.
According to testimonies, the agents warned: “If the United States touches us, you will be the first to die.”
