Emirlendris Benítez was linked to the assassination attempt against Nicolás Maduro. She was charged with seven crimes and she received the maximum sentence (30 years in prison) on August 4. During her detention and subsequent isolation, she was tortured by members of the Dgcim
Relatives of the prisoner for political reasons Emirlendris Benítez Rosales asked the Minister of Penitentiary Service, Celsa Bautista, to guarantee her immediate medical attention or transfer to a health center to treat her illnesses.
Melania Leal Rosales, Benítez’s sister, recalled that on June 11 a letter was sent both to the Ministry for the Penitentiary Service, as well as to the Public Ministry and the Supreme Court of Justice where they requested that “they have everything necessary so that my sister be evaluated by specialists as soon as possible.
Leal also demanded that the file of Emirlendris Benítez be reviewed, who is linked to the “assassination” attempt against President Nicolás Maduro in August 2018. He was charged with seven crimes and received the maximum sentence (30 years in prison) on August 4, 2022. She remains in custody at the National Institute for Women’s Orientation (INOF), located in Los Teques, Miranda state.
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“My sister is innocent,” he asserted. Organizations like International Amnesty they have also pressured the Maduro administration to provide immediate medical assistance.
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Please checkups and health care for my sister #EmirlendrisBenitez. Is #URGENT.@AmnestyOnline @volker_turk @KarimKhanQC pic.twitter.com/5RdfwquNro– Melania Leal Rosales (@MelaniaLealRos1) July 14, 2023
Emirlendris Benítez, 42, was arrested on August 5, 2018. The merchant was running a race at dawn, together with her partner Yolmer Escalona, when they went through a checkpoint where they asked for her papers, she handed them over and, act followed, they were detained without explaining the reasons.
While she was detained at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) she was beaten by officials, beaten against blunt objects such as walls, and suffocated with plastic bags. This caused her to miscarry the baby she was carrying at the time. In addition, he contributed to the encapsulation of one of her prostheses in the breast and the migration of biopolymers from her buttocks to her legs and spine.
At the beginning of February 2022, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, one of the special mechanisms of the United Nations, requested his immediate release. Also that he be granted compensation and other types of reparation, but this decision was not taken into account by Judge Hennit Carolina López at the time of sentencing.
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