According to the organization, the family members’ complaints come from detainees in the Tocuyito, Tocorón, El Rodeo and Las Crisálidas prisons.
The non-governmental organization (NGO) Provea reported on Friday, October 11, that people detained after the July 28 elections are pressured and threatened to “admit crimes that the Public Ministry (MP) has accused them of without evidence” and “ without guarantees” to “due process,” according to complaints received by the organization of relatives of those arrested.
Through torture and cruel treatment,” which include “beatings, denial of food and medicine, and restrictions on receiving visitors.”
Attention.
We receive complaints from relatives of people arbitrarily detained in post-election protests on 28J #Venezuela:
They indicate that within the Tocuyito, Tocorón, Rodeo and Las Crisálidas prisons, detainees are pressured and threatened to admit crimes that the… pic.twitter.com/qG7NkUraF9
— PROVEA (@_Provea) October 11, 2024
They would be forced to sign and put their fingerprints on blank papers, which constitutes a massive procedural fraud and a new and open violation of the judicial guarantees of the detainees,” said Provea, without specifying whether he received any type of evidence. in addition to the testimonies of family members, to support the claim.
Likewise, he recalled that the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has established that the “concept of torture and treatment”, as well as “cruel punishments”, is not limited to “practices of physical or psychological violence”, but also includes “ detention conditions that do not respect human dignity”, such as “cases of overcrowding” and “bad prison conditions”, among others.
According to Provea, the family members’ complaints come from detainees in the Tocuyito, Tocorón, El Rodeo and Las Crisálidas prisons.
Accused of terrorism
After the presidential elections, more than 2,400 people were arrested, according to figures from the Executive, in the context of massive protests against the official result that gave Nicolás Maduro’s re-election, a victory that has been questioned inside and outside the country.
The detained people, Provea noted, are being “accused of terrorism,” a crime that, according to Venezuelan legislation, carries penalties of between 25 to 30 years in prison.
The high number of people accused of terrorism by the Maduro government and the co-opted Venezuelan justice administration system ratify what several United Nations rapporteurs have described as ‘chronic abuse’ of anti-terrorist legislation,” the organization stated.
The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office accuses the protesters of generating “violence” and “vandalism” during the protests, thus affecting the headquarters of public organizations, while the largest opposition coalition, which denounces the electoral result as “fraudulent”, points to the agents of security of the State of “repression”.
With information from EFE
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