Commissioner Miguel Ibarreto Sabino had been arrested on July 21, 2019 in an operation that also led to the arrest of Lieutenant Commander Rafael Acosta Arévalo, who died as a result of torture, and another group of soldiers. They were accused of being involved in the operation “Vuelvan Caras”, as the authorities called an alleged plan to attack “social leaders” (collectives) in the west of Caracas.
The lawyer and president of the Casla Institute, Tamara Suju, denounced this Sunday the 18th the arrest of the Cicpc commissioner Miguel Ángel Ibarreto Sabino by officials of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim).
In a publication In his account on the social network X, Suju explained that Ibarreto was in his home with his relatives when DGCIM officers entered armed and took the former official. “He was presented with new charges and is in Rodeo I,” a prison denounced as a new torture center, according to relatives of political prisoners.
“The regime continues to persecute those who were imprisoned for political reasons, especially former police officers and military personnel, who have been arrested again, or given hearings to receive their release order, and at the same time they are arrested again with the same, more serious charges or new charges,” said the president of the Casla Institute.
#freevenezuela The Regime has again arrested CICPC Commissioner Miguel Angel Ibarreto Sabino, of the Vuelvan Caras Case (same case as Capt. Rafael Acosta Arevalo) who was on full liberty.
He took it to him #DGCIM after violently entering his residence and… pic.twitter.com/A19LOXdIVk
— Tamara Suju (@TAMARA_SUJU) August 18, 2024
Commissioner Miguel Ángel Ibarreto Sabino had been arrested on July 21, 2019 in an operation where Lieutenant Commander Rafael Acosta Arévalo was also arrested, who died as a result of torture, the generalGeneral Miguel Carmelo Sisco Mora, Colonel Miguel Castillo Cedeño, Major Pedro Caraballo Lira, First Lieutenant Carlos Lozada Saavedra and also Cicpc official José Gregorio Valladares Mejías.
They were all involved in the so-called “Vuelvan Caras” operation, as the authorities called an alleged plan to attack “social leaders” (collectives) in western Caracas. The group was accused of the crimes of treason, rebellion and instigation to rebellion, but in the case of First Lieutenant Lozada, the Prosecutor’s Office added the crimes of disobedience and against military decorum. They were sentenced in April 2021.
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