Visits to teenagers arrested in protests suspended
Relatives of the teenagers arrested in protests and held in Justice Center 431, in the Santa Rosalía parish of the Libertador municipality of Caracas, They reported that they are not allowed visits.
The information reported by Runrunes indicates that for the meetings, relatives must arrive on Tuesdays and Fridays before 9:00 am so that the custodians can assign them passes. Then the review process begins.
“We arrived before 9:00 a.m. to receive our passes and they told us ‘right now.’ 2:00 p.m. came and they didn’t let us in, we couldn’t see the boys,” the aunt of one of the minors told the media.
They were finally told that It was an order of Julio Garcia Zerpa, Minister of Penitentiary Services.
“The director of the center told us that she would not let us in. We stayed outside with the food and they did not allow us to enter,” she said.
Teenagers arrested during protests are “tortured”
Relatives of teenagers detained in Venezuela reported on Wednesday that the minors They are subjected to torture in detention centres following his arrest during protests against the results of the July 28 election.
Dionexis García, sister of a 17-year-old boy, told Efe that the Bolivarian National Police captured her brother while he was at a friend’s house on August 2.
He said the minor was tortured at the detention center known as Zone 7 in Caracas. There, he said, They put a hood on him and applied electricity to him to force him to record a video in which he claimed to have received $50 for protesting.
Other relatives, like Theany Urbina, organized a food and personal hygiene product drive because they do not have sufficient resources due to the inability to work while closely following the imprisonment of their children.
According to the NGO Foro Penal, of the 1,834 political prisoners in Venezuela, 60 are adolescents.
The mother of 17-year-old Kleiber is asking for the release of her son, who has already been behind bars for almost two months after being arrested at work in the context of post-election protests in Venezuela.
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