In the Tocuyito prison, two political prisoners died in less than three days, the most recent being Osgual González due to hepatitis. Family members demand that the State respect and improve conditions in prison
Relatives of political prisoners held in the Tocuyito prison, in the state of Carabobo, denounced on the morning of this Saturday, December 21, that those deprived of liberty for crimes of conscience continue to denounce the deplorable conditions within the prison premises that these people must suffer.
They warn that in Tocuyito there are “serious hygiene and health conditions”, as well as overcrowding, poor nutrition and ventilation; as well as the difficult access of political prisoners to medical care.
These elements have caused outbreaks of tuberculosis and hepatitis to occur within the prison population. They also suffer from skin infections; which is aggravated by not being able to receive adequate medical care and medicines.
For this reason, they demand that the administration of Nicolás Maduro attend to and improve the confinement of the political prisoners crowded in Tocuyito by complying with the minimum standards of the “Mandela Rules”, emphasizing that carrying out occasional health operations does not help the condition of the inmates.
“We demand decent detention conditions for all political prisoners, respect for their human rights and the protection of their integrity while they remain unjustly imprisoned,” wrote the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners on social networks.
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ATTENTION | Mothers and relatives continue to denounce the serious hygiene and health conditions in which political prisoners are held in #Tocuyito.
They denounce overcrowding, poor nutrition, poor ventilation and limited access to medical care. They say that…
— Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners. (@clippve) December 21, 2024
This committee mentioned the case of Osgual González, one of the political prisoners who died in prison after suffering from hepatitis. Relatives said that there are more cases of people with this condition inside the prison.
For years, the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (OVP), along with other organizations, have been denouncing that detainees in the country’s prisons suffer various ailments due to lack of medical care such as hepatitis and tuberculosis, while the State looks the other way.
The past December 16e, the coordinator of Vente Venezuela (VV) María Corina Machado alerted the international community about the death of political prisoners in Venezuelan prisons and “in the custody of (Nicolás) Maduro”, which according to the Penal Forum amounts to more than 1,800 people; number that grew exponentially during the post-election protests.
«International alert. Another political prisoner dies under the “custody” of (Nicolás) Maduro. Venezuelans kidnapped after July 28 are dying at the hands of the regime. Maduro is killing them, one way or another (…) The three were denied the adequate medical care they urgently needed. “Three lives taken by a criminal system,” he wrote on his X account.
As of December 16, the number of political prisoners – detained in the context of the post-election protests of July 28 – rose to three. The first was Jesús Martínez Medina, in Anzoátegui, on November 14; then, in Carabobo, Jesús Rafael Álvarez, on December 14; and Osgual Alexander González Pérez.
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