Leonardo Rojas worked as an operator at Corpoelec’s Electrical Plant and Substations and was detained by Dgcim officials at his workplace on August 3 after being called to a “meeting.” He is accused of terrorism and resistance to authority
The nine-year-old son of political prisoner Leonardo Rojas recorded a video in which he demands that President Nicolás Maduro release his father, who was detained at the Corpoelec headquarters in La Trigaleña (Valencia, Carabobo state) on last August 3 by a commission from the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim).
“The head of the penitentiary center told me that my father’s release ticket had already been given to him and that it was a matter of hours before they released my father,” says the little boy, who condemns that since December 28, when they were to the Aragua Penitentiary Center, better known as Tocorón, to share with the political prisoners, the release of Leonardo Rojas has not materialized.
For her part, Sonia Mujica, Rojas’ mother, explained to SuchWhich that during that visit an official “told us to be calm, that this would be the last visit, that before December 30 there should not be a single detainee here (Tocorón) because the release tickets were in the prison and only the director’s signature is missing.
Mujica maintains that this statement was given to her, who was visiting her son in the company of her grandson and a niece, and to other relatives who were close to them.
“I want you to release my father, please, it’s been many months, I’ve been almost half a year (without seeing him) please let him go,” the boy, who will turn 10 years old this January 6, begs. Ripe.
FREEDOM FOR YOUR DAD | Relatives of Leonardo José Mujica, a post-election political prisoner, shared an emotional video in which his son cries out for his father’s freedom this year. #1Jan.
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Rojas’s mother explains that on the 28th of last month they were called to Tocorón to share with the political prisoners and to bring them a change of clothes: “They told us that it was so that they could change to leave the prison, go to the street and to that they did not go out with the blue uniform.
«I demand the freedom of my son from Nicolás Maduro because he is innocent. He himself acknowledged (Maduro) that police excesses had been committed during arrests in post-election actions. I have gone to the Public Ministry and they have not given me answers either. “I ask Maduro and the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, to agree so that our relatives are released.”
Report of abuse
Sonia Mujica says that since last October, when Leonardo Rojas was transferred to Tocorón, she has been able to see him six times, through a glass and guarded by an official and for no more than 10 minutes, but she highlights that on the visit on the 18th December he noticed that his son had been mistreated.
“A cellmate who was released on December 28 told me that my son was beaten, mistreated, that the guards and the director choked him, that they put their hands on him and tried to suffocate him.”
Leonardo Rojas’ mother says that during the visit she could not ask him about the beatings because she had a guard next to her and to avoid reprisals; However, he assures that they are victims of mistreatment.
On December 31, a group of mothers of political prisoners received the New Year outside the Tocorón prison in support of their relatives who were imprisoned after the protests that began to protest the electoral results offered by the National Electoral Council, which declared the winner. to Nicolás Maduro for a third term. Leonardo Rojas’ mother affirms that, since then, “everyone has been punished.”
He details that their water supply and food supply were suspended and “they are being beaten again.”
Leonardo Rojas worked as an operator at Corpoelec’s Electrical Plant and Substations and was detained at his workplace after being called to a “meeting.” He was presented on August 7 at the Palace of Justice and is accused of terrorism and resistance to authority.
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