The release of Martha Lía Grajales revives the requirement of NGOs so that more than 800 political prisoners are released, and that the work of victims committees is respected and protects against the growing repression and closing of the civic space
The Venezuelan Education-Human Rights Program (Prova) celebrated the release of the human rights defender Martha Grajalesbut warned that in the country there are still more than 800 political prisoners for exercising their right to freedom of expression and peaceful manifestation, for those who demanded freedom.
“Together with Martha Lía Grajales, all political prisoners in the country must be released, and the work of victims’ committees must be respected and protected,” the NGO wrote in its X account This Wednesday, August 13, hours after it was known that the member of the emerging received precautionary measures.
Supply insisted that the measures that the authorities granted to Grajales were thanks to “national and international solidarity and insistent denunciations of their relatives, activists and NGOs on arbitrary detention and forced disappearance.” The husband of the defender of Humanness, Antonio González, explained that he will continue to submit to a judicial process “clearly arbitrary” for crimes he did not commit; since she was accused of “hatred incitement, conspiracy with foreign government and association.”
Of the more than 800 political prisoners, the organization recalled, there are five human rights defenders and 100 women, and said they continue after bars for having exercised, just like Grajales, their rights as free expression, association and peaceful demonstration. They also denounced that they have been victims of «arbitrary detention, forced disappearance, violations of due process and incommunication and/or prolonged isolation ».
«We reiterate that defending rights is not a crime and, therefore, All political prisoners must be released immediately, ”added Prova.
For its part, the Foreign Ministry of Colombia received “with approval” the news of the release of the emergency committee activist and assured by medium of x That since he met his arrest, the Foreign Minister, Rosa Yolanda Villavicencia, “said diplomatic efforts to achieve the ultimate goal of her liberation and protection of her rights.” Martha Lía Grajales is a Colombian citizen, nationalized as Venezuelan.
Human Rights Defenders have insisted that aggressions against the Mothers Committee in Defense of Truth and the subsequent arrest of Martha Grajales «is part of a state offensive aimed at intimidating and silencing voices of hundreds of relatives who have remained in the streets denounced the serious abuses committed after the post -electoral razz and the continuous closing of the civic space ».
In this same sense, they indicated that members of the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners (CLIPPVE) and their defenders Andreina Baduel and Sairam Rivas have also been victims of harassment and threats, for those who expressed support and demanded respect and protection.
*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 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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