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The Venezuelan NGO Súmate, dedicated to electoral issues, requested this Sunday the release of its national Training coordinator, Nélida Sánchez, after having been —the organization assures— “unjustly detained” 70 days ago.
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«Our coordinator (…) has dedicated a large part of her life to the promotion of human rights (…). Today, Sunday, she has been detained for 70 days and separated from her family, being innocent,” said the organization, which maintains that Sánchez was arrested “without a prior summons or arrest warrant.”
On October 6, Súmate asked the State to guarantee “a fair trial” and the “right to defense” for Sánchez, detained on August 26 by agents of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), according to the NGO.
Likewise, he recalled that on September 6, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS granted precautionary measures in favor of Sánchez, considering that he “finds himself in a situation of seriousness and urgency of risk of irreparable damage to his rights in Venezuela.
The arrest of the coordinator occurred in a context of political crisis after the controversial re-election of Nicolás Maduro in the presidential elections on July 28, a period in which the largest opposition coalition, which denounces electoral “fraud”, has warned about the increase of “persecution” and “repression” by the government.
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