The NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón pointed out that the State has a “legal and moral obligation” to decree the dismissal of the case of Maykelis Borges Ortuño “expeditiously.” They also pointed out that their full freedom, and that of the rest of the political prisoners, should be granted within the framework of the discussion of the amnesty bill.
The organization Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness (JEP) assured this Thursday that the house arrest in favor of Maykelis Borges Ortuño, detained for a year for being the partner of an exiled military man, is not “a gesture of justice, but the prolongation of arbitrariness under a different format.”
«The measure of house arrest issued in favor of Maykelis Borges is not a gesture of justice, but rather the prolongation of arbitrariness under a different format. Keeping in captivity a 26-year-old woman whose only connection with a judicial process is her marriage to the exiled soldier Cristian Hernández, represents the institutional validation of the Sippenhaft in Venezuela,” stated the NGO on social networks.
For the organization, there is no justification that a woman “has been forced to gestate and give birth in the precariousness of a cell” or subjecting a newborn to a prison dynamic. “It is cruel treatment that no precautionary measure can compensate.”
Maykelis Borges was detained on January 29, 2025 by Dgcim officials in the Altamira urbanization, east of Caracas. At that time I was two months pregnant. The young woman was accused of the alleged crimes of terrorism and treason and sent to the National Institute of Women’s Guidance (INOF), located in Los Teques, Miranda state.
The NGO reiterated that the house arrest “It is an amputated freedom that keeps a mother and a months-old child under the siege of a non-existent criminal case, without crimes to pursue and without evidence to support.”
Likewise, it was noted that the State has a “legal and moral obligation” to order the dismissal of his case “expeditiously.” They also pointed out that their full freedom, and the rest of the political prisoners, must be granted within the framework of the discussion of the amnesty bill.
“We cannot speak of ‘democratic coexistence’ or ‘new political moment’ as long as the judicial shackles on those who the State perceives as dissidents are maintained,” the NGO said.
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