NGO denounces that prisoners in Carabobo prison do not receive good food
The NGO Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP) denounced this Friday that the State does not offer “proper food” to the prisoners who are in a prison in the state of Carabobo, among whom are teenagers detained after protests against the official result. of the presidential elections on July 28.
«When relatives manage to see their loved ones, they do not recognize them because of the situation they are in, they see them malnourished and pale. The care provided by the State to those deprived of liberty must be comprehensive, with the right to adequate food, health, studies, culture and recreation,” said the director of the OVP, Humberto Prado, quoted in a press release.
He also said that the detainees’ diet must be balanced and contain a minimum of 3,000 calories, including vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
The OVP maintained that it has received complaints from relatives who report that the detainees eat “a dry and thin arepa, have pasta with meat or rice with meat for lunch, and have grains for dinner,” in addition, that they only drink “water twice a day.”
He noted that they have documented reports of prisoners with “stomach pains, constant evacuations.”
A similar situation, the OVP continued, has been recorded in a prison in the state of Aragua (north), where teenagers were also transferred after the post-election crisis.
On Thursday, relatives and friends of those detained in the context of post-election protests in Venezuela requested the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), through an appeal for protection, to review the precautionary measures of the prisoners, who are accused of crimes such as terrorism. and hate speech.
The relatives, accompanied by former opposition presidential candidate Enrique Márquez, also asked the Supreme Court to respect due process for those arrested.
After the post-election protests, the authorities registered more than 2,400 detainees, whom the Prosecutor’s Office accuses of generating “violence” and “vandalism”, while the largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), accuses the protesters of “repression”. State security agents in the demonstrations.
The NGO Penal Forum counts 1,905 detainees in Venezuela considered political prisoners, 1,767 of them arrested after the presidential elections.
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