The NGO Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón asked for the country’s political prisoners, their families and for all those people who “suffer injustice.” Likewise, they expressed their desire for “freedom and peace to flourish” in Venezuela.
The organization Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón asked this Friday, October 17, “for freedom and justice” in the country, in the context of the canonization of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández and the nun Carmen Rendiles, both Venezuelans.
Through a publication in his count ofthe NGO urged that “the example of faith, service and love of neighbor inspire our people to continue believing in the power of truth, dignity and rights.”
The human rights organization especially asked for the country’s political prisoners, their families and all those who “suffer injustice.” Likewise, they expressed their desire for “freedom and peace to flourish” in Venezuela.
In the post they shared a prayer in which they also raise their requests in favor of those who are persecuted and so that neither the faith nor the hope of the political prisoners and their loved ones is extinguished.
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In that sense, they asked God to touch the hearts of the authorities so that they listen to the people who they claim want peace and also so that their human rights are respected.
Various human rights organizations and other organizations in the country have asked for the freedom of the country’s political prisoners in the midst of the canonization process of Hernández and Rendiles.
The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) stated that these religious events represent “a favorable occasion for the State authorities to dictate pardon measures that allow those imprisoned for political reasons to regain freedom.”
According to the Penal Forum, there are 845 political prisoners in the nation; of which, 742 are men and 103 women. Four teenagers also remain detained, arrested in the context of the post-election protests on July 28 of last year.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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