- The Clippve assured that in the Aragüeña prison there are approximately 900 deprived of liberty for political reasons | Photo: Clippve
Relatives of political prisoners held a vigil outside the Tocorón prison, in the state of Aragua, to ask for their freedom. The activity began on November 7 at 6:00 pm and ended on November 8 at 6:00 am.
The Committee for the Liberation of Political Prisoners of Venezuela (Clippve) called this vigil, in which some of the relatives of those detained in the post-electoral context participated.
Family members spread a banner with the slogan “Christmas without political prisoners” and wrote “Freedom” in chalk on the floor, then surrounded the letters of that word with white candles at the beginning of the vigil.
“All the relatives of the political prisoners held in the Tocorón penitentiary center are united in one feeling, mainly asking God to give us the prompt release of our relatives in this holiday season,” said one of the relatives of the detainees presented in the vigil
The group of family members also brought photographs of the political prisoners accompanied by the phrase “We demand the freedom of” along with the name of each political prisoner.
Prayer and protest
After 9:00 pm on November 7, the relatives sat on the floor of the street outside the Tocorón prison. They lit the white candles that wrapped the word freedom and arranged the photographs of the political prisoners nearby.
The Clippve reported that there are approximately 900 political prisoners held in the Tocorón prison. Their relatives have alleged that their arrests were arbitrary and that they are innocent of the crimes they were accused of.
At approximately 10:00 pm, one of the women present at the activity took a megaphone and began to read one by one the names of the detainees for whom their freedom was being requested.
After midnight, family members made a rosary while holding the images of the political prisoners in their hands.
According to a Clippve publication in
At 6:00 am, after the scheduled time for the vigil had expired, the family members walked outside the prison with white balloons and then released them to float as a sign of freedom.
Hours before the vigil, a group of relatives gathered outside the Palace of Justice in Caracas on November 7 to demand the release of those detained in the post-election protests.
“Mr. President (Nicolás Maduro), I ask you to move to all those prisons where they are destroying the physical, moral and spiritual health of our boys, they are drying up as you say, but our boys are innocent,” said the mother. of one of the detainees.
The protester assured that many of the detainees are young workers and studying university degrees that were suspended due to their arrests. He demanded that the files of the accused be reviewed.
“How do they ask us mothers to have a happy Christmas? I raised my son with values of Christian faith, with Venezuelan roots, that you blame me for terrorism,” he alleged.
The protester explained that the relatives of the detainees are willing to sit at a working table with the Venezuelan authorities to review the cases in detail.
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