2023-10-19 05:09:00
The release of Roland Carreño was announced by the representative of the opposition in the dialogue with the regime, Gerardo Blyde
The Nicolás Maduro regime released Venezuelan journalist Roland Carreño and four other political prisoners this Wednesday night, as confirmed by the head of the delegation of the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), Gerardo Blyde, through his account on X .
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The anti-Chavismo chief negotiator shared a photograph in which he is seen next to the journalist, with a brief message indicating that he is “free.”
In another publication, he indicated that four other political prisoners were released, including former deputy Juan Requesens, who was prosecuted in 2018 but was already out of prison, as well as Marco Antonio Garcés Carapaica, a university student arrested in 2020 for being in the same vehicle as a former US Marine; Mariana Barreto, imprisoned for protesting in 2019 over irregularities in the supply of gasoline in the Andean state of Trujillo (west) and Eurinel Rincón, who was a secretary in the Ministry of Defense and was charged with treason and leak of information following appearing in a photo with an opposition leader.
Former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski and the vice president of Political Affairs of the Primero Justicia party, Tomás Guanipa, celebrated the release of the opponents.
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“We deeply thank the human rights defenders for their efforts and persistence in the fight for the release of all political prisoners,” Guanipa said on Twitter.
Political prisoners released by the Nicolás Maduro regime. (@GerardoBlyde)
These releases are the first to occur following the agreements signed this Tuesday, in Barbados, between the PUD and the Chavista regime, which outline, according to the opposition, a route for the release of the 300 political prisoners that exist in the Caribbean country. .
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Carreño was arrested on October 26, 2020 in “flagrant” when, supposedly, he was carrying weapons to “promote violent actions”, and he was charged with the crimes of financing terrorism, conspiracy once morest the political form and illicit trafficking in weapons of war.
These releases are the first to occur following the agreements signed this Tuesday, in Barbados, between the PUD and the Chavista regime, which outline, according to the opposition, a route for the release of the 300 political prisoners that exist in the Caribbean country. . (@GerardoBlyde)
Later, his defense reported that he was also accused of “criminal association.”
The attorney general appointed by the Chavista dictatorship, Tarek William Saab, then stated that Carreño was the “main” financier of the Voluntad Popular political party and that at the time of his arrest he had $12,000 in cash with him, and that, in addition, they found in his cell phone conversations that demonstrated the distribution of another $60,000 for acts of “conspiracy.”
The former Venezuelan deputy, Juan Requesens, was sentenced last year to eight years in prison for the crime of conspiracy.
The former Venezuelan deputy, Juan Requesens, was sentenced last year to eight years in prison for the crime of conspiracy.. (REUTERS/Carlos García Rawlins)
On August 8, 2018, the Chavista Justice declared the admissibility of the prosecution of Requesens and according to a press release published by the organization itself, there were “sufficient elements of conviction to estimate the commission of crimes of a permanent nature” by the former deputy.
Requesens faced two charges of frustrated homicide and five others for possession of a firearm, terrorism, treason, criminal association and public instigation.
After serving two years locked up in Helicoide, headquarters of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) awaiting trial, he was released as a humanitarian measure in August 2020.
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