Maduro told Vivas to “train” those who crossed cables at the barricades erected in some streets during the 2014 protests.
Venezuelan General Ángel Vivas was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison for the crime of “instigating the rebellion”; The NGO Coalition for Human Rights and Democracy reported this Tuesday.
Kelvi Zambrano, defense attorney for Vivas and member of this NGO, explained that Vivas has been detained since 2017; and he has been on parole since 2018, when President Nicolás Maduro ordered the review of the cases of 39 imprisoned “political actors”.
The sentence was ordered by the First Military Court of Caracas.
Maduro told Vivas to “train” those who crossed cables at the barricades erected in some streets during the 2014 protests.
«The court considered that General Ángel Vivas was sentenced for the crime of instigation to rebellion and was for the crimes of treason once morest the fatherland and military rebellion. Leaving him a sentence of seven years and six months, “Zambrano detailed regarding the decision of the military court, review 2001 on your website.
However, he recalled that since “General Vivas has already served more than half of this sentence”; he will complete the rest of the sentence under presentation in court, every 30 days.
Likewise, the defense recalled that in 2021 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights granted Vivas and his family precautionary measures for considering that “they are in a situation of serious and urgent risk.”
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