Caracas, Jul 9 (EFE).- Venezuelan non-governmental organizations on Tuesday demanded the “unrestricted” release of activist Rocío San Miguel, president of the NGO dedicated to military affairs Control Ciudadano, who was detained “unjustly” five months ago, they said.
“We at the Venezuelan Prison Observatory are calling for her immediate and unrestricted release,” the organization wrote on social media X, saying that the activist’s arrest on February 9 was “unjust and arbitrary.”
The observatory said that San Miguel has spent five months “suffering” in Helicoide, the headquarters of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin), in Caracas, during which – it added – he has not been able to “appoint his trusted lawyers.”
Access to Justice – through X – demanded the “immediate release” of the lawyer, whose detention was also described as “arbitrary,” and stated that “she has been the victim” of “violations of her rights,” including the right to defense and due process.
San Miguel, accused by the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP, Attorney General’s Office) of having an alleged link to a conspiracy that included a plan to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro, was arrested at the Maiquetía international airport, which serves Caracas, when she was preparing to travel with her daughter.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on Feb. 19 that San Miguel “delivered information” regarding military defense systems to a European Union (EU) ambassador and embassies of three other countries.
On July 3, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stated that, in the last year, his institution has documented an increase in “threats, harassment and attacks once morest civil society actors, journalists, trade unionists and other critical voices.”
Türk denounced at least 38 cases of arbitrary detention in this regard, and mentioned the specific cases of San Miguel and Carlos Julio Rojas, “detained since February 9 and April 15, respectively, without access to a defense of their choice.”
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2024-07-11 19:18:33