The human rights defender, Raúl Cubas, explained that they will try to meet with the Ombudsman, Alfredo Ruiz, to “demand that he comply with his constitutional obligation to defend the victims of human rights violations by State officials, who This is the case of Carlos Correa.
Mabel Calderín, wife of human rights defender Carlos Correa, demanded from the outskirts of the Ombudsman’s Office that the authorities inform her where she is. He also requested his freedom because he reiterated that he has not committed any crime and “he is a man of integrity.”
Strap meets six days missingafter he was taken on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 7, by people dressed in black, hooded, and taken in a car without license plates to an unknown destination when leaving his office in the center of Caracas.
Calderín said that they have gone to all the detention centers to ask about him and stated that in all of them they are denied his presence. In the same way, he stated: “We have done everything that needs to be done humanly and legally,” up to the introduction of a Habeas corpus; but “we still have no response.”
“I demand from all the authorities and today we come to present the petition to the Ombudsman’s Office, who we are going to demand to do what they have to do, to do their job and to work so that Carlos is fully released,” said Mabel. Calderín, who demanded that the Ombudsman, Alfredo Ruíz, demand that other government authorities respond for Correa’s life and health.
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The co-founder of the NGO Provea, Raúl Cubas, accompanied Carlos Correa’s wife to the Ombudsman’s Office, and explained that they will try to meet with Alfredo Ruiz to “demand that he fulfill his constitutional obligation to defend the victims of human rights violations.” human rights by State officials, which is the case of Carlos Correa.
«The Ombudsman’s Office is obliged to give us a response, accompany the victims and clarify where he is detained, what conditions he is in, apart from, demand the immediate release of Carlos, because defending the right to freedom of expression and defending rights is not a crime,” Cubas added.
“We have visited all the detention centers and in all of them they deny us their presence”
Mabel Calderín, wife of defender Carlos Correa, demands that the @Defensoria_Vzla and to the Venezuelan authorities to report on his whereabouts and life after 6 days in forced disappearance.
We demand… pic.twitter.com/9GMRQeLdYu
— PROVEA (@_Provea) January 13, 2025
Provea also demanded that the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, provide information on Correa’s whereabouts. Likewise, they recalled that days ago a Habeas corpus before the Caracas Criminal Circuit and they have not been notified about the admission of the appeal or about possible procedures carried out by the authorities to determine the place where Carlos Correa is held.
Correa is a journalist, human rights defender, professor at the Human Rights Center of the Andrés Bello Catholic University, director of Espacio Público and was also coordinator of Provea.
Various international organizations have expressed concern about the persecutions and arbitrary detentions in Venezuela and have requested the immediate release of all political prisoners. Even the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures for the benefit of human rights defender Carlos Correa, after considering that he is in a serious and urgent situation “since his rights to life and personal integrity face a risk of irreparable damage in Venezuela.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the 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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