On April 7, while waiting for a trial hearing that was suspended, members of the National Guard launched a tear gas canister in the cell where Eudis Girot was found along with another political prisoner, Rodney Álvarez, recently released.
Various workers’ movements reported, on the night of this April 25, on the release of the political prisoner Eudis Girot, detained since November 18, 2020 for alleged crimes associated with terrorism.
The portal La Izquierda Diario, the Labor Party and the organization Democracia Sindical assure that the freedom of the oil worker occurred after a trial hearing, where he was also being accused of illegally carrying weapons.
Oil leader Eudis Girot released. A triumph of struggle and mobilization. Girot, was arrested on Nov. 18. of 2020 by forces of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN). Since then a great campaign has been deployed for his freedom. #May1stWithoutWorkersPresxs pic.twitter.com/56Q2z1Gnu2
– The Left Venezuela Newspaper (@LaIzqDiario_VE) April 26, 2022
? People’s Victory! From the Committee of relatives and friends of imprisoned workers we announce the release of Eudis Girot.
With unity, organization and a fighting attitude, justice will prevail.
Workers around the world, unite! pic.twitter.com/IR5XSKipHm
— LibertadParaLxstrabajoxs (@LibertadPlenaYa) April 26, 2022
Eudis Girot is executive director of the Unitary Federation of Petroleum Workers of Venezuela (Futpv) and was arrested after participating in protests to demand salary and labor benefits for workers in that sector. Union organizations also assured that his arrest was due to the various corruption complaints he made against PDVSA managers.
His release comes in the middle of a visit from a high-level commission of the international labor organization (ILO) that has requested, for several years, the release of all imprisoned workers for political reasons.
On April 7, while waiting for a trial hearing that was suspended, members of the National Guard launched a tear gas canister in the cell where he was held with another political prisoner, Rodney Álvarez, recently released.
Girot’s relatives denounced that he was about to die, because the inhalation of these toxic gases caused a severe cardiac arrhythmia. “This is the second time that the security forces put Eudis’s life at risk,” said his wife at the time.
During his detention in 2020, Girot was originally transferred to the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) in Caracas, but was later transferred to the El Rodeo prison in Miranda state.
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