Ramón Guanipa, son of the opposition Juan Pablo Guanipa, insists that his father did not violate the precautionary measures imposed by the authorities. “We cannot continue to be faint-hearted and we cannot continue to be blind in the face of how they violate human rights around the world,” he said.
Ramón Guanipa, son of the opposition Juan Pablo Guanipa, reported this Monday, February 9, that he does not know the whereabouts of his father after “unidentified men” took him away on Sunday night and the Prosecutor’s Office announced that it requested the revocation of the release measure for a house arrest regime.
“Until now we have no official information about his whereabouts,” Guanipa said in a statement. news conference at the headquarters of the Primero Justicia (PJ) party and demanded a certificate of life from his father.
Although the Public Ministry indicated that house arrest was requested for Juan Pablo Guanipa, his son assured that the measure has not been carried out and that the authorities have not informed the family where his father is or if he is being transferred to his home in Maracaibo, in the state of Zulia.
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«My father did not commit any crime or any violation of his precautionary measures. “I have my father’s release ticket that clearly indicates that the only conditions he had were to appear before the court every 30 days and to be prohibited from leaving the country,” Raamón Guanipa insisted.
The opponent’s son said he was “upset” and demanded that the authorities stop the persecutions and arrests. “We cannot continue to be faint-hearted and we cannot continue to be blind to how they violate the human rights of the whole world,” he said and rejected the new arrest of his relative. He assured that the situation can be repeated “with anyone.”
Ramón Guanipa rejected that anyone should ask how the relatives of political prisoners who have not been released feel and recalled that Juan Pablo Guanioa was recently widowed and has four small children. «This has to end and it has to end now. All political prisoners have to be free and truly free,” he demanded.
Guanipa had been released from prison on the afternoon of Sunday, February 8, along with another group of opponents close to the opposition leader, María Corina Machado. After this, the opponent led, along with other political activists, a caravan of motorcycles and cars that went to several prisons to support the relatives of political prisoners and, hours later, he was arrested again.
Ramón Guanipa indicated that around 11:45 p.m. (03:45 GMT) unidentified men, without uniforms and carrying long weapons, took his father away after they intercepted and hit the vehicle in which he was traveling with another group of people.
“Given the aggressiveness of these people, my father decided to get off and they took him away,” he said.
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