After Torres’ arrest, Provea warned about the criminalization of Venezuelan workers and assured that it is a “new attack on union freedom” in the country.
The Venezuelan Observatory of Trade Union Freedom denounced the arbitrary detention of José Elías Torres, general secretary of the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) on November 29 by the Bolivarian National Police (PNB).
In your account at X He reported that PNB officials raided the union leader’s apartment, located in Bello Monte, Caracas, and took him into custody.
“José Elías Torres is a workers’ delegate to the ILO, is part of the Social Dialogue Forum and is a prominent union leader,” the organization wrote.
The observatory indicated that 15 union leaders are in prison.
After the arrest, Provide alerted about the criminalization of Venezuelan workers and assured that Torres’ arrest is a “new attack on union freedom” in the country.
In its account on X, the National Union of Press Workers denounced the arrest of the union leader and demanded his immediate release.
On Wednesday the 26th, the arrest of another union leader was reported. Trade union organizations and human rights lawyer Tamara Suju reported the arbitrary detention of Arnaldo Méndez (55), Labor Affairs Coordinator of the Trade Union Coalition.
In the case of Méndez, they assured that the leader was “violently kidnapped” in the El Valle parish, in Caracas, “by 10 hooded officers, without identification, who beat him out of his residence and took him away.”
*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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