Edmundo González highlighted that political prisoners suffer from serious illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, neurological and gynecological conditions, and mental health disorders that have developed or worsened in prison. These people have also not received, in many cases, adequate medical care.
Edmundo González regretted this Saturday the physical and mental deterioration suffered by dozens of political prisoners in the country, and rejected that illnesses are used as an “additional punishment” or a “mechanism of pressure” on those detained for political reasons.
“When a seriously ill person remains in state custody without treatment, his or her life is clearly in danger. And when this pattern is repeated, the risk of deaths in custody is no longer exceptional,” asserted González on the social network
The opposition leader, who maintains his claim as president-elect of the 2024 elections, published a list of political prisoners with chronic or serious illnesses prepared by the NGO Justicia Encuentro y Perdón. The organization assured that 91 detainees suffer from serious pathologies that require urgent medical attention.
González reaffirmed that these people “should not be imprisoned. They are political prisoners. Illness cannot be an additional punishment or a pressure mechanism. “Life, dignity and the right to health cannot be used as a pressure mechanism.”
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The opponent also highlighted that political prisoners suffer from serious diseases such as heart disease, cancer, neurological and gynecological conditions and mental health disorders that have developed or worsened in prison. These people have also not received, in many cases, adequate medical care.
He reiterated that these are not “isolated events”, but rather “clear” patterns where, in certain prisons, “the deterioration of health is repeated. The relationship between the place of detention and physical and mental harm is direct. Where there is isolation, inhumane conditions and denial of medical care, the disease advances.
He also recalled the warning made this week by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, about the lack of medical care for hundreds of detainees in the country.
Human rights organizations have documented that dozens of political prisoners suffer from serious illnesses—heart disease, cancer, neurological and gynecological conditions, and mental health disorders—that develop and worsen in confinement, without medical care. Among them,… https://t.co/ehIe0hZgmw pic.twitter.com/g2PAN0vm4j
— Edmundo González (@EdmundoGU) December 20, 2025
*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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