The NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón denounces that there is “absence of clear, complete and accessible official information” and reiterates that “not all announced releases have been able to be verified.”
The NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón has confirmed, as of January 13, “a little more than 70 releases” of people detained for political reasons in the country since last January 8, when the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, announced that there would be “a significant number” of releases.
The organization complaint that the granting of precautionary measures for these people has been developed in “absence of clear, complete and accessible official information” and reiterates that “not all announced releases have been able to be verified.”
This Tuesday, January 13, Jorge Rodríguez stated that there have been more than 400 releases and assured that they were not political prisoners, but rather “politicians who had committed offenses against the law.” The deputy promised to publish a list with the names of those who have benefited and explained that they are counting those released from prison as of December 2024, although perhaps he made reference to December of last year.
Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón recalls that the authorities reported on 87 releases on December 25 of last year and they were able to corroborate 77 and between December 31 and January 1, 99 releases were announced and the NGO verified only 80.
The figures offered by the president of the National Assembly do not agree with any of the human rights defense organizations, nor with those of the Ministry of Penitentiary Affairs, who indicated last Monday, January 12, that in the last hours there had been 116 releases.
The organization pointed out that the difference between the announced and verified figures reflects the lack of transparent official information, which generates confusion and anguish among the families of people deprived of liberty. For this reason, he reiterated his call for the authorities to publish an official verifiable list of those released from prison.
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