Tamara Suju on the case of Jesús Martínez: “They let him die”

Tamara Suju, renowned lawyer, human rights defender and executive director of the Casla Institute, rejected the death of Jesus Martinez Medina and maintained that this is what he described as “another murder in custody of the State.”

“He was detained on July 29 without an arrest warrant by the Bolivarian National Guard and on July 30 a custodial measure was decreed, charging him, crimes of terrorism, instigation of hatred and was transferred to the Bolivarian National Police”Suju explained.

In that sense, the lawyer indicated that “in the Lechería Cruise, where he was detained in inhumane conditions. Despite his illness, until November 6 – all that time – he did not receive timely medical attention. It was in totally deplorable conditions. The inmates there asked that he be taken to the hospital because he had very serious conditions due to one of his legs and his autopsy. He had type 2 diabetes. When he was transferred to the Luis Razetti Hospital in Barcelona with the necrosis he had, unfortunately the transfer was too late. From November 30 to November 6 he was crying out for his health. I don’t “They let him see his mother while he was detained.”

“They let him die slowly. Which seems to be a practice of the regime for some political prisoners, who have died due to lack of timely medical attention. This, of course, is another crime. It is another crime against humanity that occurs in Venezuela. He was simply imprisoned for being a table witness. That is to say, the injustice in this case is terrifying and the regime maintains the practices of not providing medical care to people who need it and they are dying slowly and little by little because their illnesses are deteriorating,” said the rights expert. humans.

“Of course he is a victim of the regime. The mother implored the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Police to allow her to see her son. For God’s sake. They denied it”he added.

Suju pointed out that the intention of not allowing him to see his family was so that the seriousness of Martínez Medina would not be known. He specified that this is an example of the actions of the government of Nicolás Maduro with political prisoners in Venezuela.

“They tried to hide the seriousness of this victim. It is the evil, the criminality of the regime, of its senior officials, of its officials, as I have been repeating every day. Because it was not that Martínez’s seriousness was not known, what was happening to his leg was on all the networks. Their photos were shown. There were people asking for medical attention, but he died. They murdered him. They simply murdered him. They let him die. “That’s what happened.” Tamara Suju insisted.

The human rights defender pointed out that there are many cases of imprisoned people who are sick, who have conditions, pathologies, who need medicine and who are not being allowed it. There are also many prisoners politicians who do not allow family members to see them or receive complete treatments.

“Martinez’s death is a warning to others, “whose illnesses whose physical conditions require attention,” he mentioned.

He added: “They are inept. Not only are they criminals, but they are inept. They have no way to care for so many hundreds of people who are in those prisons. They don’t even have a way to supply food. They do not have any type of organization to care for so many people and of course that is part of the punishment. Prison is the way, the way and the abuse. The lack of medical care, continuous psychological torture, threats, mistreatment of family members is another form of punishment that the regime imposes on opponents.”