The relatives of the detained teenagers were prohibited from entering the hearings, due to alleged problems with other parents in other court hearings. Another 160 adults arrested for the post-election protests, including 17 women, have been put on trial since Friday, October 11 for alleged crimes of incitement to hate, terrorism or association to commit a crime in Carabobo, Guárico and Anzoátegui
Five teenagers arrested for post-election protests have been sent to trial in the last week by courts with jurisdiction over terrorism. The young people, held west of Caracas, did not agree to plead guilty for an alleged reduced sentence.
Miguel Urbina was put on trial the night of this Thursday the 17th after his preliminary hearing before Court 2 with jurisdiction in terrorism. In the cases of Ángel Moisés Ramírez and Daiber Lucena, both detained in El Valle (Caracas) on July 31, they were sent to trial on Wednesday, October 16.
Both María Navas, Daiber’s mother, and Nérida Ruíz, Ángel Moisés’ mother, were told that they must now wait 48 hours for the court to get rid of their file and assume another one with jurisdiction in the trial. The new judge will be in charge of setting the dates for the start of the trial hearings.
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None of them could be present with their children during the preliminary hearing, despite the fact that the law establishes that all minors must be accompanied by one of their parents or representatives. Nérida Ruíz had already spoken to her son to warn him that perhaps he would not be able to be present; However, she was able to see him before and after entering the room, just like María.
«They alleged that in other hearings there were parents who began to argue and that is why they were not allowing the parents to be present. “The defender asked the judge that Ángel undergo a vision checkup since he cannot see well without glasses and they broke them in Zone 7. They also asked for a checkup for Daiber who has an injury to his arm,” Ruiz commented.
Of the group of detainees in the Caracas City Care Unit, in El Cementerio, Judge Keidimar Ramos Castillo has also sent Diomer García, Bleidel Level Herrera and Frenyermi Lara to trial, the latter two last week.
In the states CaraboboYaracuy and Guárico have also been sent to trial since September 30. According to data from the Penal Forum, to date there are 80 young people between the ages of 14 and 17 detained in the context of the post-election protests, of the more than 140 that the NGO counted. In August a group was released under precautionary measures.
All young people have been offered reduced sentences for alleged crimes such as terrorism, incitement to hatred, obstruction of public roads, qualified theft, resistance to authority or improper use of insignia and uniforms. No one has accepted.
Detained in Tocuyito and Guárico
Since the afternoon of Wednesday the 16th, a group of relatives of those detained in the Tocuyito prison have been protesting outside the facility, after the trial of more than one hundred men in the context of the post-election protests, according to reports. The Carabobeño.
The relatives were stationed in front of the prison and shouted slogans rejecting the measure. «None of them are going to plead guilty because they are innocent. “They cannot plead guilty to something they did not do,” said a woman, who has her son detained.
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They also reported that the prisoners in Tocuyito continue to receive spoiled food. They also do not allow them to bring them food, which has caused them to lose considerable weight. «They pass their food with worms, hair or nails. It smells bad. They obviously don’t eat it. It’s horrible and unpleasant. Sometimes they go all day without eating,” warned a mother.
They are also subjected to psychological abuse. “They will leave in 30 years” is one of the phrases that the custodians repeat to them. «It is so much so that one of the boys these days tried to hang himself. “My son told me during the visit that they took the boy out almost dead,” said another mother.
Another 13 women were also sent to trial on Wednesday in Barcelona, Anzoátegui state, for the alleged crimes of terrorism, criminal association and inciting hatred. They will remain detained at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) in that city.
The women were taken to court without prior notice to their families. They have also been prevented from swearing in private defenders.
While more than 40 people arrested for post-election protests were sent to trial on the night of Friday, October 11, according to Fundehullan. The hearing was held electronically and without access to private defense.
Among those detained are four women held in the Women’s Annex of the General Penitentiary of Venezuela (PGV). One of them is six months pregnant and has a history of epilepsy, “who was not granted any benefits based on her medical situation,” the NGO denounced.
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