Vente Venezuela demands the release of three detained activists

The Vente Venezuela (VV) party, led by opposition leader María Corina Machado, demanded this Monday the release of its collaborators Juan Freites, Luis Camacaro and Guillermo López, after 300 days of what it describes as unjust detention, on January 23.

On the social network Venezuela”.

Machado expressed, through

«Venezuelans are proud of their total dedication to the cause of our freedom and their strength inspires us to fight until the end. “I love you very much, my friends, and we will see you soon in freedom,” said the opponent.

Freites, Camacaro and López are part of a list of 153 political leaders and activists who, according to the VV Human Rights Committee, are detained, whom it describes as political prisoners, the vast majority of whom are collaborators of the main opposition alliance, the Democratic Unitary Platform. (PUD).

The three, the organization states, were detained “without a court order” by “repressive bodies of the regime” – in reference to State security forces – as well as “criminalized, through social networks, by spokespersons” for the ruling party. .

This weekend there were releases from prisons in the country, after a review – requested by the Public Ministry – of the cases of detainees in the context of crisis after the July 28 elections, marked by numerous protests against the proclaimed re-election of Nicolás Maduro and police operations.

The NGO Foro Penal, which leads the defense of “political prisoners” in Venezuela, indicated this Sunday that it registered and verified the release of 131 people, who, according to the organization, must go to court this Monday to have measures imposed on them. substitutes for his deprivation of liberty.

However, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, assured that between Friday afternoon and Saturday, 225 freedom measures were “granted and executed” to people detained after protests against the official result of the July 28 elections..