The NGO Justice, Meeting and Forgiveness demanded respect «to the fundamental guarantees, due process and cessation of criminalization of journalism. Gabriel González and all political prisoners must be released immediately »
The NGO Justice, Meeting and Forgiveness on Thursday 17 the immediate freedom of the journalist Gabriel González, who was part of the Vente Venezuela communications team at the time of being arrested.
González was arrested by officials of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) on June 17, 2024 in Altamira (Chacao Municipality, Miranda State) while going out to buy something for lunch with Javier Cisneros, youth coordinator of the organization that was subsequently released. Since then it has been held in the helicoid.
«His arrest constitutes a serious violation of his human rights and the free exercise of journalism. Gabriel is part of an alarming persecution pattern: currently, according to data from the National College of Journalists, In Venezuela there are 13 journalists arrested, and at least eight of them arrested after the July 2024 ″ elections, the organization said in A message In their social networks.
González He was sent to trial on November 5 Together with the journalist Luis López, who worked in the truth of Vargas, and political activists Juan Iriarte (Vente) and Jeancarlos Rivas (popular will). The Second Court of Control of the Metropolitan Area against Terrorism, in charge of Judge Carlos Liendo, accepted the alleged positions of attacking a military installation, incitement to hatred and terrorism.
The group was indicated by a prosecutor from the Public Ministry to participate in an alleged assault on the headquarters of the National Guard Security Command located in the Maiquetía parish, during the route of the then candidate of the democratic unitary platform, Edmundo González Urrutia, on June 8 of this year.
«We demand respect for fundamental guarantees, due process and cessation of criminalization of journalism. Gabriel González and all political prisoners must be released immediately, ”reiterated the NGO.
10 months after the arbitrary detention of Gabriel González, journalist and member of Vente Venezuela, we reiterate our demand for immediate freedom.
González was arrested on June 17, 2024, one month before the presidential elections, while going out to buy something for … pic.twitter.com/aockznpub5
– Justice, Meeting and Forgiveness (@jepvzla) April 17, 2025
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content is being published taking into account the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
