Edward Ocariz is one of the more than 1,700 people arrested for the post-election protests. His sister said that the order, according to the guards’ explanation, came from the Ministry of Penitentiary Service for denouncing the situation of political prisoners. The human rights activist was detained inside his home in the Coche parish (Libertator municipality of Caracas) on August 2 by hooded PNB officials.
Sol Ocariz, sister of human rights activist Edward Ocariz, reported that her visits were suspended, by orders of the Ministry of Penitentiary Service, in the Tocuyito prison last Monday, November 25.
She indicated that she arrived at the prison at 6:15 in the morning to be able to attend the 11:00 am visit. At that time they told her that she had agreed to meet for the last round of visits at 4:00 pm. She was stopped again at doors of the prison by the guards, and one of them informed him that he had the suspended visit.
«You have the visit suspended because by order of the Ministry, whoever appears in the media has the visit with their relatives here in this center suspended. Like my case, many other cases, there were several ladies who had the same thing happen to them,” they told him.
COMPLAINT | Sol Ocariz, sister of Edwar Ocariz, activist and political prisoner in #Tocuyitoreports that she was mistreated and was prevented from seeing her brother yesterday #25Nov. Officials informed him that the visit was suspended by orders of the Ministry for the Penitentiary Service. pic.twitter.com/sGAvXjim6m
— Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners. (@clippve) November 26, 2024
Ocariz expressed that he will continue his complaints about violations of the rights of political prisoners after the elections. «We are not going to remain silent, now we are going to speak and we are going to tell everything that is happening in the prisons, but we are not going to remain silent. “If we remain silent, we give the government the opportunity to continue committing misdeeds as they are doing.”
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Edward Ocariz is one of the more than 1,700 people arrested for the post-election protests. The activist, part of the Human Rights Defense Committee of the Coche parish (Capital District), was arrested on August 2 by hooded officials of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB).
Two days later he was presented before the Third Control Court with jurisdiction over Terrorism and accused of the alleged crimes of obstruction of public roads, terrorism and incitement to hatred.
«My brother was kidnapped from his home. To this day he remains imprisoned. On the government’s fantasy island they accuse him of terrorism, incitement to hatred, but he is an activist and defender of human rights from the Coche parish. My rights have been violated everywhere. My life changed completely. “I left everything to be here defending my brother,” said Sol Ocariz.
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