The lawyer and director of the NGO Foro Penal, Gonzalo Himiob, warned about the situation of two Peruvians during the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, who are not allowed to hire a private lawyer.
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The lawyer and director of the NGO Foro Penal, Gonzalo Himiobwarned that two Peruvians are among the list of 806 people detained and imprisoned during the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. As detailed Himiobthe arbitrary arrests were against Marco Antonio Madrid and Ricardo Melendez Guerrero.
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Along the same lines, the vice president of the non-governmental organization specified that the Venezuelan authorities have not allowed Madrid and Meléndez to hire a private lawyer to exercise their right to defense. Instead, they were assigned a public defender; However, these lawyers belong to the dictatorship Venezuelan.
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“They are arbitrarily detained in Venezuela. They have been registered by our organization, investigations and criminal proceedings are being followed or carried out for alleged crimes that have to do with alleged espionage, acts of plot, conspiracy against the government and, at this moment, as is the case with other prisoners for political reasons, they cannot assign a lawyer they trust,” he warned during an interview for RPP.
Meanwhile, Himiob highlighted that another 87 foreigners or Venezuelans with dual nationality are also deprived of their liberty for purely political reasons.
“They are subject to the same limitations and situations to which all political prisoners in Venezuela are subject. In general terms, in our experience, when foreign citizens or Venezuelans with other nationalities are imprisoned, this is done with the purpose of using these people as a kind of bargaining chip with foreign governments to achieve political benefits or some political advantage that would not be achieved with other governments,” he said.
