The teenager Samanta Hernández was presented this Thursday, January 15, before Judge Kelly Nuñez, in charge of the First Control Court with jurisdiction in Terrorism of the Adolescent Responsibility Criminal System. His parents were denied access to the courtroom.
The Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners denounced that the teenager Samanta Hernández, 16 years old and sister of exiled lieutenant Cristián Hernández, was the victim of “pressure” by her public defender to admit crimes that she has not committed.
«This Thursday January 15 We have been informed that the preliminary hearing of teenager Samantha Hernández.. During said hearing, the public defender imposed by the State, lawyer Annely Ramos (who appears on networks like Public Defender 16 Adolescent Criminal), insists that the 16-year-old teenager admit crimes she never committed,” the Committee stated in a publication on social networks.
The teenager was presented before Judge Kelly Nuñez, in charge of the First Control Court with jurisdiction in Terrorism of the Adolescent Responsibility Criminal System. Their parents were denied access to the courtroom and “are awaiting” the charges they intend to impose.
Aranza de los Ángeles Hernández, Samanta’s sister, would also have been presented at this hearing.
«The arbitrary detention of Samantha and Aranza occurs in a context of family persecution and collective punishment based on kinship, known as Sippenhaft. His deprivation of liberty seeks to force the surrender of his brother, Lieutenant Christian Hernández, a critic of the government, detained for his political positions and currently in exile,” the Committee stated.
The organization said that similar cases have been recently recorded in the country, and gave as an example the family of Lieutenant José Rodríguez Araña, whose parents, sisters and cousins remain detained; of Captain Antonio Sequea, whose mother and cousin were forcibly disappeared; of the journalist Omario Castellanos, recently released from prison; or the deputy Fernando Orozco, also missing along with his wife, a son and an ex-partner.
In the case of the Hernández family, Maykelis Borges and Henry Castillo, the captain’s wife and uncle, respectively, are also detained.
The Committee also demanded the freedom of teenager Gabriel Rodríguez, sentenced to 10 years in prison, as well as the rest of the political prisoners in Venezuela. «There is no reconciliation or transition possible with political prisoners. Let them all be released now!
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