Human rights defenders told SuchWhich who fear that there will be an eviction from El Helicoide, but without the release of political prisoners
Various non-governmental organizations, activists and even politicians demand the release of political prisoners. Human rights defenders told SuchWhich who fear that there will be an eviction from El Helicoide, but without releases.
«It is an opportune moment for the release of political prisoners. There is a great expectation that this will happen,” said Alfredo Romero, director of the Penal Forum.
The lawyer also said that it is necessary to stop the repression and eliminate the “machinery of repression against political dissidence or against those who have a different opinion,” he added in a video published on his account of
On the other hand, Alfredo Romero urges that people who have pending cases with the law, which he claims are more than 9,000, “be released in absolute terms,” as he remembers that although they have been released, they remain with processes and precautionary measures. “Freedom for all,” requested the human rights defender.
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«It is also necessary, as we have suggested, a general amnesty that transforms this country of conflicts and crises and uncertainty into a country of national unification, reconciliation, peace and justice. Of course, without that meaning impunity,” he added in his message and emphasized that justice is necessary in cases of crimes against humanity committed in the country.
Primero Justicia politician Julio Borges considered that “the release of the political prisoners should have already taken place.” In his opinion, there cannot be a “credible transition while there are innocent people suffering in the dungeons of a dictatorship.”
Borges’ demand is freedom for all “political, civil and military prisoners, without precautionary measures; that is, there must be full freedom.
Given the comments that there are movements in El Helicoide, and that it is still unknown precisely what is happening, the NGOs fear that the authorities will move the detainees to other prisons in the country and then announce a closure of this detention center without any releases.
The general secretary of Democratic Action, Henry Ramos Allup, also posted on his X account an image asking for “freedom for all political prisoners.”
*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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