Francis Fernández asked that communication and visits be allowed to journalist Carlos Julio Rojas, as well as the possibility of sending him clean clothes and other belongings. The CNP also demanded “proof of life” and respect for due process in their case.
The journalist and human rights defender Carlos Julio Rojas served 100 days in total isolation inside the Sebin Helicoide. This was reported by his wife Francis Fernández on Monday, November 10, together with the National College of Journalists and the NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón.
«His family has not received a call again, he has not had visitors for 100 days. The reasons? Unfortunately only they know them. This is a quite complex situation, Carlos Julio is an honest person, innocent of everything he is accused of,” said Fernández in a videospread on social networks.
She also recalled that her husband was already a victim of “severe punishment” by the previous director of the detention center, when he spent “35 days in a punishment cell called tigrito and spent 60 days without seeing sunlight.”
«These treatments are not normal and must stop. Why so much cruelty against a person? Why so much cruelty against a journalist and human rights defender? What has Carlos Julio done to them? Please, I ask these people who make these types of decisions to analyze, because instead of adding to fixing the country’s situation, what it does is affect it more,” Fernández claimed.
The NGO Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness pointed outfor its part, that these types of actions correspond to cruel and inhuman treatment that “not only affect their physical and psychological integrity, but also constitute unjustified cruelty.”
Francis Fernández asked that communication and visits be allowed to journalist Carlos Julio Rojas, as well as the possibility of sending him clean clothes and other belongings. The CNP also demanded “proof of life” and respect for due process in his case.
Carlos Julio Rojas was arrested on the night of April 15, 2024 while walking with his wife in the La Candelaria parish (center of Caracas), by unidentified individuals. Since then, he has been detained at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) known as El Helicoide, without progress in his case or access to a trusted private lawyer.
He was accused, among other crimes, of attempted assassination. His family says he was “deceived” by the authorities, who initially told him that he was detained for the 2015 case.
*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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