Canaima Hernández, sister of Marcela Hernández, one of the detainees, pointed out that they have not heard from the young people for more than 23 hours. They demand faith of life
Relatives of the two students from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and the two audiovisual producers detained this Friday, October 31, in the vicinity of the Tocorón penitentiary center, in the state of Aragua, demand to know their whereabouts.
This Saturday morning, a group of relatives went to the Sebin headquarters in Maracay, where they were supposedly detained, but there they were informed that they had been transferred to El Helicoide, in Caracas. However, in this detention center they assured them that they were not there.
Canaima Hernández, sister of Marcela Hernández, one of the detainees, pointed out that they have not heard from the young people for more than 23 hours; They do not know where they are being held or how they are being held. He asked for proof of life of the detainees: “We need to know about their integrity, their whereabouts and how they are,” he said in a video published on Instagram.
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The detained people are Noel Cisneros, Katiuska Castillo Vásquez, Ingrid Briceño Venegas and Marcela Hernández Guerra, the Surgentes collective reported this Friday afternoon.
According to the information given by Surgentes, the arrest occurred when “they were carrying out pre-production work for their special degree work” outside the penitentiary center.
*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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