Relatives of political prisoners, including Luis Somaza, attended the Public Ministry for the fifth time and introduced a document that required prosecutor Tarek William Saab a hearing to learn about the situation of more than 20 detainees with prohibition of visits
Luis Somaza’s family fears for his life. They do not know where he has been on Wednesday, February 12 when he was arrested by a group of people without identification. His sister denounced that at the time of detention, they caused damage to the house of the leader of popular will.
So far no authority has informed about his whereabouts. This Thursday, February 13, the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, made reference to the arrest of a person, but did not specify whether it was Somaza. “Yesterday, one was captured, linked to the USAID financing. Tomorrow they get him sick and say he is a child, ”he ironized.
Valeria Somaza, sister of the ex -counter of Baruta, went to the Public Ministry to denounce that the leader was arrested on Wednesday afternoon February 12 in an illegal procedure, without court order, by officials without identification who took him in vehicles without a plate or any labeled some police force.
Luis Somaza, 38 years old was Baruta municipality councilor (2013-2017) and director of the office of the interim government of Juan Guaidó from 2019 to 2023. His family holds Diosdado Cabello for his life and integrity, since he had received public threats from the official leader in his television program and once He assumed as Minister of Interior, the persecution increased to the point that he could not leave and was under shelter in a house in Padros del Este, his sister told.
“My brother did not leave the country because he had no reasons to flee. He is innocent. They kidnapped him for wanting a better Venezuela, to dream of a different country, ”he said. He showed concern about the life of the opposition leader, who until noon this Thursday, February 13 had been missing.
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The day before, his sister, who was birthday, had planned to go home and meet him to share and chop a cake. At about 6:30 pm when I was one block from Somaza’s house, he noticed that the street was closed with gray -colored Toyota Forunners models trucks, without plates or identification and hooded officials dressed in black, who were among the Door of the house and the gate of the housing next door, which they forged to be able to jump into the house of the former Baruteño.
Valeria Somaza, Luis Somaza’s sister
Somaza denounces that they violated the right to private property. He says his brother was alone with his dog. Around five hooded men took him out of the house, put him in the vehicle and started with an unknown direction. But a group of officials, including a brown man dressed in a civilian with red striped flanks -whoever led the operation -stayed inside the house for more than three hours. The family could not enter at that time or verify the state in which they left the room or the pet.
“I don’t know where they took him, I want my brother’s life. It is a secret to anyone what they have done with other political prisoners. I fear for their life, for torture and anything that will make them care against their life, ”he told the outskirts of the Public Ministry in Carabobo Park.
Tortured relatives
The Prosecutor’s Office was attended by other relatives of political prisoners who introduced, for the fifth time, a document in which they request the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, to give information about the situation of about twenty detainees in the Helicoid and the Rodeo they are prohibited Visits.
Sairam Rivas, partner of the councilor of the Liberator Municipality of the Capital District, Jesús Armas, denounced that political prisoners and their relatives are subject to “soft” torture practices with isolation and prolonged lack of communication.
“We want us to guarantee the right to visit them, to see them and to hug them,” he said. He assured that prolonged isolation is a form of torture, which qualifies in crime against humanity and also violates international treaties and laws of seclusion in which the incommunication or torture to prisoners is prohibited.
“There are political prisoners that will already be seven months in this condition, have been arrested under arbitrary practices of forced disappearances. They have no right to see even a call. Every time they want, arbitrarily, They suspend the visit, ”said Rivas, leader of the Red Flag Party.
He also denounced that among the violations of due process is not only arbitrary detention and the forced disappearance of those who are victims Political prisoners but also impose a public defender, present them in telematic hearing and hide information in the courts on the file, the prosecution that takes the case and the lawyers who defend them.
*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.
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