2024-02-14 03:37:53
Rocío San Miguel was imprisoned on Friday (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
The courts of Venezuela decreed the deprivation of liberty against the Venezuelan activist Rocío San Miguel, president of the NGO Citizen Control, detained since last Friday for being “allegedly linked” to a conspiracy plot to assassinate Nicolás Maduro and other Chavista officials, confirmed this Tuesday one of his lawyers.
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“The defense team of Rocío San Miguel and other relatives confirms that the judicial deprivation of liberty of the director of Citizen Control was decreed,” reported jurist José González Taguaruco in X.
He indicated that the San Miguel place of confinement is the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) in El Helicoide, in Caracas, the regime’s cruelest prison. Several of the political prisoners who managed to get out told how the torture apparatus set up in the prison by State forces works.
The Maduro regime arrested the activist when she was trying to leave the country
The defense also confirmed the deprivation of liberty against Alejandro José González Canales, the activist’s former partner, whose detention center will be the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim).
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The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, confirmed this Tuesday that San Miguel was presented on Monday night before the Second Court Against Terrorism, and that the MP requested a measure of deprivation of liberty for her for the “alleged commission of the crimes.” of treason, conspiracy, terrorism and association.”
The Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab (EFE/ Miguel Gutierrez)
He also highlighted that “preventive” detention was requested for González Canales for the “alleged” commission of the crimes of revelation of political and military secrets concerning the security of the nation, obstruction of the administration of justice and association.
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Saab assured that both the activist and her five relatives appear “allegedly involved” in the conspiracy plot called ‘white bracelet’, whose objective was to “attack the life of the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, and other high officials.” .
The former leaders who make up the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) condemned this Tuesday the “forced disappearances” of Venezuelan opponents, such as those that occurred with leaders of the Vente Venezuela party, led by the opposition presidential candidate María Corina Machado and a defender from the human rights.
“Aware that the dictatorial regime of Nicolás Maduro is attacking viciously through the practice of forced disappearances, (…) we condemn such events and alert public opinion and the international community,” says the IDEA statement, signed by 27 former Heads of State and Government of Spain and Latin America.
Among the missing, according to the IDEA Group, are Juan Freites, Luis Camacaro, Guillermo López and Víctor Venegas, the four leaders of Vente Venezuela, and Rocío San Miguel.
The former Ibero-American presidents describe these actions as “deviations of human and political conduct” and maintain that these “forced disappearances” recall “the totalitarian experiences that filled humanity with shame in the mid-20th century.”
In the statement, the former leaders recalled the September 2023 report of the United Nations Independent Mission in which it reports “short-term forced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial executions”, facts investigated by the International Criminal Court “to determine the responsibilities of the Maduro regime.”
Last December, more than 60 NGOs asked the UN to monitor the “situation of democratic freedoms and human rights” in the country and “pronounce in a timely manner” on this matter in view of the upcoming electoral periods, including the presidential one, for when they foresee an increase in “repression and persecution.
In the last few hours, the UN Independent International Mission for Venezuela, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and Amnesty International, as well as hundreds of local NGOs, expressed their concern about the detention of San Miguel and have requested the Venezuelan State respect for their rights.
(With information from EFE)
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