This Tuesday the first image of Juan Pablo Guanipa was released at his residence in Maracaibo, Zulia state, confirming the severe conditions of his arrest. In the photograph The political leader is seen with an electronic shackle on his left anklea symbol of his confinement under surveillance.
By sharing the image on social networks, his son Ramón Guanipa accompanied the registration with a message of resistance: “Never defeated.”
The publication occurred hours after the son confirmed that his father remains under this judicial measure, imposed after being arrested again shortly after leaving prison on Sunday. The young man questioned the decision and the conditions under which the arrest was carried out.
“My father is still unjustly imprisoned, because a prison is still a prison and we demand his full freedom and that of all political prisoners,” he said.
Conditional release with permanent police surveillance
According to the family, the leader faces additional restrictions to house arrest, including the prohibition of offering statements to the media or making publications on social networks, as well as the constant presence of police officers in the vicinity of the home.
Ramón Guanipa stated that, although the reunion brings him relief, he considers that an “injustice” has been committed, as he maintains that his father did not violate the previous measures and that now “he has even fewer freedoms.”
The opponent, a close ally of María Corina Machado, was released on Sunday as part of a process of releases recent in the country, after spending more than eight months detained for accusations that he and those around him consider political.
After his departure, he offered public statements in which he called for national reconciliation and defended that Venezuela has the right to be a free country.
However, hours later he was intercepted by unknown armed men who took him back into custody, an episode that his family denounced as irregular and that revived complaints about the persistence of repressive practices in the country.
