76 days after Nélida Sánchez’s arrest, the Súmate Civil Association maintains that her going to trial increases the restlessness, anguish and pain that the coordinator of the organization has experienced. Likewise, they highlight that the decision was made on the basis of a “forged police report.”
This November 9, the Civil Association join in reported through a release the trial against its coordinator Nélida Sánchez, after the judge of the Third Control Court with Competence in Terrorism decided to go to trial after a preliminary hearing held on November 6. The organization maintained that this decision violated Sánchez’s constitutional rights to defense and due process.
In addition, he indicated that the five crimes charged in the presentation hearing on August 29 were maintained, based on a police report from the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin). The organization qualifies this report as invalid for incurring the “vice of false assumption,” since the facts presented do not correspond to the truth, the statement said.
To Nélida Sánchez, National Coordinator of Citizen Electoral Training of @Sumatethat today #09Nov She has been detained for 76 days, the Judge of the Third Control Court with jurisdiction in Terrorism in the preliminary hearing on #6Nov has violated her right to due process,… pic.twitter.com/4A60luE2BA
— AC Súmate (@Sumate) November 9, 2024
“As a citizen organization we express our rejection and repudiation of this new judicial decision to authorize prosecution based on a forged police report, since it increases the restlessness, anguish and pain of our colleague Nélida Sánchez,” the document stated. In addition, he recalled that this November 9 marks 76 days since his arrest.
preliminary hearing
Súmate explained that in the preliminary hearing, the public defense alleged that the police report indicates that Nélida Sánchez was detained at her home on Wednesday, August 28. However, the organization that is dedicated to electoral issues stressed that in reality “she was deprived of her freedom on Monday, August 26, the day she was approached by Sebin officials in the vicinity of the Victorino Santaella Hospital, in the city of Los Teques, Miranda state”, after receiving an urgent family message.
Likewise, he stated that other evidence presented, of two “tweet messages”, was forged, since their date is after his arrest and, furthermore, they do not appear registered in Sánchez’s personal account (@NELIDASANCHEZO) in X.
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In the opinion of the organization, this decision “further darkens the image of the administration of justice, which thereby fails to comply with the principles to which it is obliged to submit its actions, established in articles 26, 44 and 49 of the Constitution of our Republic.” ».
Finally, Súmate insists that the State “must guarantee our colleague Nélida Sánchez the enjoyment and exercise of all her rights,” including her personal freedom.
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