Caracas, Oct 3 (EFE).- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado this Thursday condemned the transfer to trial ordered the day before of a group of seven teenagers detained in the context of protests against the controversial re-election of President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 elections.
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«How much evil can there be in a person and in a regime to torture children and young people? (…) These seven boys are our children, our reason for fighting. What they have done to them, with the aim of terrorizing all young people and their parents, is the greatest reason we have as a society to intensify our fight. It must be denounced and hard. Nobody can think that Venezuela will be the same after this. “No one can remain silent,” he said.
In that sense, Machado urged “every young person, mother, journalist, priest, businessman, police officer, soldier” and “everyone” to “face this horror and end it.”
«My heart goes out to their mothers. I hug you with all my soul. We will heal their wounds, physical and spiritual, because we are going to free them all. Afterwards, they will continue to grow in a country that will respect their human dignity and their admirable courage in these hours,” he assured.
Likewise, he expressed that Venezuela is “today united in seven lives” and “with seven families that represent the infinite pain of a people,” in reference to the homes of this group of adolescents.
According to the organization Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón (JEP), which monitors six of the seven cases, the teenagers, despite the fact that “they declared themselves innocent, were accused of the crimes of terrorism and incitement to hatred”, after which “they were ordered trial” and will not have “any procedural benefit.”
This Thursday, relatives and friends of those detained in the context of post-election protests requested the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), through an appeal for protection, to review the precautionary measures of the prisoners, who are accused of various crimes such as terrorism and incitement to hate.
The NGO Foro Penal counts in Venezuela 1,905 detainees considered “political prisoners”, 1,767 of them arrested after the presidential elections, among them 67 adolescents, aged 14 to 17 years.
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2024-10-04 07:11:57
