The Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners said that they have registered several cases of released people who present diseases such as sequelae of imprisonment conditions. In Carabobo, a 28 -year -old boy who came out on January 4 of Tocorón died in early February: his family denounces dengue, bruises in the body and a fissure
On February 4, Yorman David León, a 28 -year -old boy who was arrested on July 29 in Naguanagua, Carabobo state, died when he was going to throw gas in his car. He toured three different seclusion sites until last January, when he was placed on probation under a presentation regime every 15 days.
But he could not go, His health was committed to lack of medical care, torture and imprisonment conditions. His dad, Rafael León, declared with fear of persecution. “It is enough with the pain of my boy’s loss.”
He said his son enjoyed good health, but when he was released he perceived a completely different person: quiet, distant and repressed.
Diego Casanova, who is part of the Committee for the freedom of political prisonerssaid that Much of the detainees currently have diseases such as sequelae of imprisonment, including bowel conditions and hypertension, which are the most common.
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He also said that in the case of releases they suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, so their relatives not only have to deal with everything that involves recovering their health states, but also leading them to therapy to overcome what they lived in seclusion .
León says that in the days after the release he avoided talking to his son of what he lived in the three prisons where he was, although there was no evidence that involved him in the alleged crimes of terrorism, betrayal of the homeland and association for crime they charged him.
Arbitrary detention
Yorman David was accompanied by his cousin to supply gasoline, but they didn’t even reach the service station. They were intercepted by security troops who checked the car and asked for their cell phones, but none had. They were transferred to the strong paramacay, in Naguanagua, where they spent several days incommunicado and without visits.
Then he was transferred to the Center for Preventive Detention of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) in Los Guayos. At that time he was still a good health. His relatives saw him every day and brought him food and water. There he lasted two months and, at that time, they hoped that the hell they were living would end soon.
«Once he told me: ‘Quiet that we are going to leave because we are innocent. They grabbed us doing anything, ” said their 63 -year -old father.
He assured that Everything was complicated when his son was transferred last October to the Tocorón prison, in the Aragua state. There the visits were every 15 days and suffered inhuman imprisonment conditions, with overcrowding, without the right to drinking water and consuming food in poor condition.
On January 4, he was released next to a group of 94 prisoners in Tocorón, but his health status was serious. He arrived at his house suffering a fever, so he was taken to the doctor and made checks. He was diagnosed dengue, he had obstructed stomach, bruises in the body and a fissure. The latter possibly consequence of blows and torture that he received in seclusion.
Among the studies and proceedings in court, his health worsened.
«They sent him to make an endoscopy because he did not pass the food. The stomach as they are wearing, but did not give chance to do anything. They told us that it came with a dengue. The night he died told me that they gave him spicy food and water in poor condition, they leaked her with tapping, ”said his father.
Fear and impunity
Yorman’s family is silent about his death. They fear being persecuted by retaliation when making some kind of complaint. Although his dad believes that what his son and his duel lived is unfair, he does not have among his plans to denounce. His fear of living another nightmare is bigger.
«You imagine the quantity (of cases). Look is nothing else that of us. As one does to report if they have no validity. For me this is unfair, that one has to live this, that my boy has been unfairly arrested, ”he said.
According to the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, the latest releases that have been executed this year respond to health complications.
In January there were more than 200 political prisoners that required urgent medical care. The figure has dropped because a part of them were released with precautionary measures.
Other cases of bump
A relative of Carlos Camacho, a renal patient arrested in the days after the July 28 elections, said that due to the lack of medical care in the months that he was imprisoned in Tocorón, he worsened his health. Doctors diagnosed him with detachment of a kidney.
He said that he currently suffers from bilateral renal microlitiasis (calculations), hematuria (presence of blood in the urine) and inflammatory colonopathy. He needs medications and specialized care, but his family does not have the resources. They resorted to social networks to ask for help, although it has not been effective.
In a press conference, the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, ironized with the complaints that relatives make about the health of political prisoners. “Yesterday was captured (Luis Somaza), tomorrow gets sick and they say he is a chest boy,” he said on February 14.
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Casanova said that the health condition of political prisoners deteriorates because many enter with pathologies, but the conditions of seclusion, lack of medical care, abuse, poor diet and lack of hydration causes damage.
The journalist Víctor Ugas, arrested by an incident in a restaurant in Caracas with a creator of content adept at the ruling party, had to be hospitalized between February 4 and 6 due to complications with the asthma he suffers, as a consequence of environmental factors that They have been presented in the Tocorón prison, detention center where it is located.
Uugas’s mother, Yris Azócar, told Public Space that the journalist was hospitalized and received treatment at the same detention center. He affirmed that Uugas suffers from very serious asthmatic episodes that force him to be in controlled environments, with optimal conditions.
Urgent attention
Such is the magnitude of the health situation of political prisoners that have allowed the Red Cross to make days of medical care in criminal centers in recent weeks. After these visits, who present a serious state obtain a substitute measure. According to the Public Ministry, until January 25, 1,896 people were released.
One of these cases is that of a young man who, before being arrested, had been surgically intervened to introduce nails into the leg bone, due to a fracture. During the seclusion he did not have the proper care and that generated a strong infection he currently suffers.
In addition, it runs the risk of being ampute your leg. His family is collecting money to operate it again, since he urgently requires to remove welding and put other nails re -place.
For this reason, family members have demanded that they allow them medical care in time and be judged with faithful attachment to their rights and precepts established by laws on criminal proceedings. They have attended several opportunities to the Ombudsman and the Public Ministry to ask them to be released and attended by specialists, however, the releases have occurred to the dropper. According to him Criminal Forum More than 1,194 people are detained For political reasons in Venezuela.
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