The Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Venezuela (Clippve) denounced on Thursday the Transfer of five political prisoners From Barinas state to prisons in Miranda. The organization warned that this decision increases the vulnerability of detainees and limits the accompaniment of their relatives.
Through a statement in X, The organization He stressed that the authorities would have sent lawyer Ysaira Villamizar to the National Institute of Women’s Orientation (INOF), in Los Teques. Simultaneously they transferred the former mayor of Barinas José Luis Machín, the Junior Rivas student and the engineers Miguel Jorge and José Osorio to the Yare II prison.
The Clippve recalled that officials arrested the five arbitrarily on August 25, when they returned from a political meeting in Ciudad de Nuerias, Sosa municipality. The same day they kept them In forced disappearance Until, after public complaints, their families managed to confirm that they remained held at the headquarters of Sebin in Barinas, without access to lawyers or the basic guarantees of due process.
Inhuman prison conditions
The organization denounced that sending detainees to distant prisons hinders the assistance of their relatives and exposes them to a prison system that, he said, does not guarantee minimum conditions of living. He pointed out deficiencies in food, medical care, access to drinking water, hygiene and recreation spaces.
“Submiting them to a penitentiary system with inhuman conditions (…) does not guarantee what is established by Venezuelan law (…), much less the mandela principles are fulfilled, recognized by the United Nations as minimum standards for the decent treatment of persons deprived of liberty,” said the organization.
Clippve demanded the immediate release of Villamizar, Machín, Rivas, Jorge and Osorio, and called on the international community to maintain attention to the situation of the political prisoners in Venezuela.
