Jesús Armas was arrested on the night of December 10. Relatives reported that he was forcibly entered into a van without license plates.
The activist Jesus Armas He was tortured and taken to a clandestine house of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin). This was stated this Friday, January 3, by the activist Sairam Rivasmember of Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners and partner of the former councilor of Caracas.
«The detainees are taken to clandestine houses of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) and the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) (…) it is not a new practice, it has been documented. And in the case of Jesus we were able to know about this because he himself reported it,” he said during the program Vladimir a la Cartehosted by journalist Vladimir Villegas. The activist expressed her concern because this puts the integrity of those deprived of liberty at risk.
Rivas also denounced that one of the practices of the Venezuelan government is to hood family members so that they can go to where those deprived of liberty are, in addition, “they only allow them to bring five liters of water for 15 days, one kilo of sweets and bread, as well as like some medicines.
Jesus Armas was arrested on the night of December 10. Relatives reported that he was forced into a van without license plates. They pointed out that this is part of the “revolving door” applied by Nicolás Maduro’s administration: political prisoners are released and detained.
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The activist also commented that in Venezuela several practices have been established against political prisoners, including the violation of the right to defense and due process, in addition, family members cannot have contact with those deprived of liberty. “Jesus was missing for six days and, after we found out where he was, they told us that he had no visitors, while political prisoners like Américo de Gracia and Freddy Superlano and Perkins Rocha have not yet received visits,” he alleged.
He added that “those who have been released so far must appear every 15 days, which generates anguish and anxiety, because they feel that the measure can be reversed, in addition to forcing them to sign a paper in which they say that they cannot have political contact.” nor testify about his case, which are conditions of very strong coercion.
He stated that no prosecutor from the Public Ministry has received or attended to the relatives of the political prisoners. Finally, he called on the government to release all political prisoners and respect their integrity and due process, as well as their families, many of whom must travel from other regions of the country to visit those who remain in prisons such as Tocorón, Yare and The Rodeo.
With information from a press release.
*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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