The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) condemned this Thursday the new police restrictions that They block the entrance of visitors to the residence of lawyer Perkins Rochaand demanded the immediate release of the jurist, who is under house arrest in Caracas, as well as the release of the almost 400 political prisoners in Venezuela.
In a statement on the social network
“We reject the systematic violation of the human rights of Dr. Perkins Rocha, who remains unjustly deprived of liberty under a regime of house arrest and who, since yesterday, is being subjected to new and illegal restrictions that prevent visitor access to his residence,” denounced the Unitary Platform.
Demand for full liberation and democratic transition
The coalition linked Rocha’s legal situation with the rest of the people detained for political reasons in the country and maintained that the full freedom of all defendants constitutes a fundamental requirement for the institutional future of Venezuela.
“Perkins Rocha must be released immediately, like the almost 400 political prisoners who still remain deprived of liberty,” he stressed. the PUD. “There cannot be a true transition to democracy as long as there are political prisoners.”
He stated that general release constitutes “an indispensable condition to move towards reconciliation and democratic reconstruction.”
The declaration of the Unitary Platform occurs after two consecutive episodes of police restriction in the vicinity of Rocha’s home.
- Wednesday: Agents of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) prevented access to journalists and frustrated a scheduled meeting with representatives of the United Nations.
- Thursday: Police commissions blocked the entrance of the Spanish MEPs Hermann Tertsch and Jorge Martín Frías, who had to greet the jurist from the street and he responded from the balcony.
