US Edition'How long?': Day Three of hunger strike for Venezuelan political ...
- On February 15, a dozen female relatives of Venezuelan political prisoners began a hunger strike outside the Zona 7 prison in Caracas, going more than 50 hours without solid food and relying on water and electrolyte solution.
- After repeated postponements, families say the stalled amnesty forced the hunger strike, with relatives camping since January 8 and Jorge Rodríguez promising releases by last Friday, which were delayed.
- Foro Penal rights NGO reported 444 political prisoners freed since January 8, with 634 still awaiting release; inside Zona 7, about 60 inmates remain, and three women became ill after two days without food.
- Authorities allowed some releases at Zona 7 at midnight as Rafael Arreaza, volunteer Venezuelan doctor, warned 'Immunity drops and health complications can occur very easily,' with sick strikers transported in lawyers' vehicles.
- NGOs warn the amnesty excludes key groups as Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said Operation Gideon detainees will not be freed, while more than 600 remain detained.
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Women were hungry to demand the release of political prisoners, one disappeared and was taken to a taxi hospital due to lack of available ambulances.
A group of women relatives of political prisoners in Venezuela completed a 72-hour hunger strike this Tuesday on the outskirts of a police commando in Caracas to demand the release of their relatives. Nine of the ten women who started the strike at 06.00 local time (12.00 Spanish peninsular time) on Saturday, as one was decompensated on Monday and was taken to a hospital in a taxi because there were no ambulances available, has declared to Efe a…
The deterioration of the health of the demonstrators and the denial of medical access to the detainees raise pressure on the Chavista regime in the midst of the debate over the amnesty law
Between physical decompensation and the lack of medical assistance, the protest presses for the fulfillment of the promises of release.
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