Caracas, Oct 23 (EFE).- The Academies of Language, History, Political and Social, Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Economic and Engineering Sciences and Habitat of Venezuela asked the authorities this Wednesday to release all those detained after the post-election protests, especially to minors.
Through a statement published in Xthe academies urged that full respect for personal freedom and the physical and psychological integrity of all people be guaranteed.“with special attention to minors, and, therefore, immediately release all people arbitrarily detained in the context of the post-election demonstrations.”
Likewise, they requested that due process of law is “fully” ensured of all those who are under judicial investigation, respecting their fundamental rights.
The academies too They called for respect for the right to freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration to be guaranteed. of all citizens, “without arbitrary restrictions.”
They pointed out that limitations on the right to peaceful demonstration should only occur “under very specific and limited conditions, as established by the Constitution itself and international human rights instruments.”
On Monday, relatives of minors detained in the context of the protests unleashed after the presidential elections in Venezuela delivered a document to Unicef, in Caracas, in which they ask the UN agency to intercede for the release of the 70 children and adolescents who – they claim – remain imprisoned, as well as to verify the conditions of confinement.
The arrests occurred in the days after the presidential elections, when thousands of Venezuelans came out to protest against the official result of the elections, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) awarded victory to Nicolás Maduro, while the majority opposition bloc , the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), insists that the winner was its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia.
According to the Government, during the post-election crisis, 27 deaths were recorded, for which the authorities blame the opposition, and more than 2,400 people were arrested.
However, anti-Chavismo accuses the State security forces of repression and violence against protesters.
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