The Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners confirmed this Saturday afternoon the release of seven political prisoners who were held in the El Rodeo I penitentiary center.
The human rights defender organization identified the released citizens as Henry Castillo, Gilbert Araña, José Gregorio Valladares, Damián Rojas, Wilfredo Díaz, Juan Lagos and Wilder Vázquez.
“All of them prosecuted for different causes and with different realities, as is the case of Wilder, who accumulated years of arbitrary detention,” Clippve detailed in a message published in X.
The organization detailed that the group was received outside the prison by the mothers who make up the civil protest camp, who total more than 250 days spending the night in the place awaiting the release of all of the detainees.
Clippve pointed out that the mothers and relatives of those detained for political reasons will continue outside the facility to continue witnessing and documenting each event independently.
“Although we celebrate these emotional reunions, we remember that there are still dozens of political prisoners to regain their freedom. We will remain firm and organized until everyone returns home,” Clippve concluded.
Other releases
Several human rights NGOs reported this Saturday between 20 and 30 releases during the early hours of the morning without all of them being people who have been registered as political prisonersa measure that comes hours after the second round of dialogue between Chavismo and the opposition ended.
Among those released, according to the organization Foro Penal en both for alleged destabilization plans against the government of Nicolás Maduro.
Foro Penal, leader in the legal defense of political prisoners, told EFE that they were verifying the total number of these released detainees.
“We have information on a little more than 20, but we are directly verifying each case“the organization’s vice president, Gonzalo Himiob, told EFE.
For its part, the NGO Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness (JEP) said in X that it has been able to verify some 29 releases from various detention centers.
“We want to specify that a group of 17 people among those released He did not appear in our registry of political prisoners. We clarify that this responds strictly to the technical and institutional criteria that we apply for the methodological classification of the cases – based on the criminal types or charges charged -, which does not undermine the relevance of their situation or the attention we pay to their process,” said JEP.
Meanwhile, the NGO Surgentes reported on the release of eight women, including a teenager, accused of being part of the so-called ‘tancol’, an acronym created by local authorities to refer to “armed terrorists and Colombian drug traffickers.”
