- Penal Forum reported 1,953 political prisoners; Brazil vetoed Venezuela from the BRICS group; They confirmed the arrest of Pedro Tellechea; They denounced to Unicef the violation of the human rights of children and adolescents in Venezuela; and the Venezuelan academies demanded respect for human rights | Photo: EFE
During this week, the Penal Forum reported that there are at least 1,953 political prisoners in the country, while Venezuelan activists denounced the violation of human rights against children and adolescents in Venezuela to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
On the other hand, the national academies of Venezuela issued a joint statement in which they demanded respect for the human rights of Venezuelans and the immediate release of those detained in the post-electoral context. Likewise, Brazil vetoed Venezuela from belonging to the list of partner countries of the BRICS group.
The government confirmed the arrest of the former Minister of Industries in Venezuela Pedro Tellechea and the political leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González won the Sakharov Prize.
Regarding migration, the government of Panama hopes that Venezuelan migrants deported after crossing the Darién jungle can be received in third countries.
Below are the highlights of the week:
The Penal Forum reported on Friday, October 25, that as of October 22, a total of 1,953 detainees were reported, of which 1,824 were imprisoned in the post-election context.
Likewise, of that number, 1,884 are adults and 69 are adolescents. Regarding gender, 1,711 are men and 242 women, while 1,792 are civilians and 161 are military.
The non-governmental organization (NGO) indicated that during the week of October 14, 19 new imprisonments were recorded and 148 sentences were handed down. A total of 1,805 prisoners still do not receive any precautionary measure.
Celso Amorim, special advisor to the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, confirmed on October 25 that his country did not support Venezuela to join the list of countries associated with the BRICS, because Nicolás Maduro “made promises that he never complied” and now the trust is “broken.”
Government sources informed the EFE news agency that Maduro tried to put pressure “at the last minute” to get Venezuela included in the list of countries associated with the BRICS, to which Brazil reacted by “emphatically” opposing it.
The list of 13 countries that will be associated with the BRICS, which has not yet been officially approved, was agreed by consensus among the representatives of the nine members of this forum at a meeting held on October 22 in the Russian city of Kazan.
In a statement, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry expressed that with this veto it is “reproducing the hatred, exclusion and intolerance promoted from Western power centers to prevent, for now, the entry of Bolívar’s homeland into this organization.”
Tarek William Saab, attorney general of the Public Ministry (MP), confirmed on October 21 the arrest of the former Minister of Industries in Venezuela Pedro Tellechea, who on October 18 reported that he left that portfolio for “health reasons.”
The MP indicated that the former Venezuelan official was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, October 20, and is accused of committing “serious crimes that threaten the highest interests of the nation.”
Saab pointed out that Tellechea would have participated in the “delivery of the Automated Command and Control System, known as the brain of PDVSA, to a company controlled by the United States Intelligence Services.” In addition, the Venezuelan State will judge him for other actions that violated “national sovereignty.”
On October 21, members of different Venezuelan opposition parties delivered a letter to the Unicef headquarters in Madrid (Spain) to denounce the “serious violations” of human rights suffered by children and adolescents detained in the country.
In the letter, the complainants indicated that there are 142 children and adolescents detained, 70 of them held in centers with “inhuman conditions”, which they consider are not suitable for their age and condition, in violation of international standards.
In the document they demand the immediate release of these young Venezuelans because the conditions include overcrowding, lack of access to basic health services, poor nutrition and lack of protection against physical and psychological abuse.
Furthermore, the opposition representatives indicated in the letter that the adolescents have been “tortured with electric shocks, beatings, lack of food or even sexual abuse.”
On October 23, Venezuela’s national academies issued a joint statement demanding respect for the human rights of Venezuelans and the immediate release of those arbitrarily detained in post-election protests.
The representatives of the academies expressed their concern about the “recent events that have been the subject of documented complaints by various civil society organizations and international organizations, especially in the context after the presidential elections of July 28, 2024.” .
The document includes the Language academies; History; Political and Social Sciences; Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences; Economic Sciences; and Engineering and Habitat.
In the document they highlighted their rejection of political persecution and the arrests that occurred in the post-election context. The academies emphasized their concern about the arrests of adolescents during those days.
Political leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González won the Sakharov Prize for freedom of conscience from the European Parliament on October 24.
The organization recognized them “for their brave fight to restore freedom and democracy in Venezuela.”
González and Machado obtained the support of a majority of the heads of the political groups of the European Parliament meeting behind closed doors in Strasbourg, according to parliamentary sources from the EFE news agency.
The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, assured that the political leaders represent all Venezuelans inside and outside the country who are fighting to restore freedom and democracy in the country.
7.Panama hopes that a third country will receive deported Venezuelan migrants
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino expressed on October 24 his hope that a third country will welcome deported Venezuelan migrants who arrive after crossing the Darien Gap.
“I hope it happens,” Mulino expressed in his weekly press conference, after remembering that relations between Panama and Venezuela have been suspended – since the end of July 2024 – so Venezuelans cannot be returned in the context of an agreement with USA.
According to the regional internal security attaché of the United States (US), Marlen Piñeiro, this possibility of that Venezuelans be deported to other countries It is open, since, he assured, they have had conversations with some governments.
In this repatriation plan between the United States and Panama, the travel by air of almost 800 foreigners of various nationalities has been carried out, who arrived in the Central American country after crossing the border jungle with Colombia.
On October 23, it was learned that the Colombian band Morat’s concert, scheduled for November 16, was canceled after the entertainment production company Aguacate Live US LLC reported that it filed a lawsuit before the federal courts of the Southern District of Florida, United States, against the group, its company Malta Music SAS and its representatives Global Talent Services Music Entertainment Spain.
According to an official statement, the company detailed that the measure is due to a “contractual breach related to the show rescheduled for November 16, 2024.”
For their part, the members of Morat reacted to the news through social networks and assured that the concert promoter decided to cancel it “unilaterally.”
The concert was going to take place at the Olympic Stadium of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and was part of their world tour. Morat: The Stadiums. Before Dawn. The presentation was originally scheduled for June 29, 2024, but the date was changed to November 16, as a result of logistical readjustments.
The prosecutor investigating the death of Liam Payne, Andrés Madrea, received the musician’s father, Geoff Payne, to convey the details of the investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement published on October 22.
The head of the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office 14 informed the father of the British musician that “the toxicological and histopathological studies complementary to the autopsy have not yet been completed,” the results of which are necessary to define the details of the delivery of the body.
The prosecutor also let him know that he is not aware to date of other studies or laboratory analyzes and did not disclose any type of specific technical report outside of the investigation and the judicial process corresponding to the case.
The statement from the Prosecutor’s Office was released after the celebrity news website TMZ revealed that there were several substances in Payne’s system when he died, including ecstasy, crack cocaine, ketamine and a drug mixture known as “pink cocaine.”
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