US EditionRelatives of Political Prisoners in Venezuela Start a Hunger Strike Against the Unfulfilled Promise of Liberation
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At noon on Monday, ten women lay in mats supported by police barricades, numbed by dehydration and with more than 50 hours without eating. They joined the hunger strike that had already begun the political prisoners for whose freedom they cry. After more than a month of vigil, the tents have multiplied in the vicinity of the so-called Zone 7, a commando of the Bolivarian National Police in Caracas, and the protest has been increasing. It is the …
"It's enough of so much mockery, so much blackmail and so much manipulation," cry the relatives of the political prisoners, on hunger strike after the breach of the promise of the recycled chavismo to pass the Amnesty Law Read
"In all cases, there are more than 600 people," said NGO president Alfredo Romero, near the command of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), in Caracas, where ten family women of political prisoners remain on hunger strike since Saturday. Romero indicated that they were included in the list of political prisoners whose family had not confirmed it or because they did not know it or "did not even know where they were" arrested. On February 08, Jua…
Human rights organizations and political leaders reported that after 60 hours of the hunger strike by relatives of political prisoners, harassment by police agencies has increased. Vente Venezuela’s leader, Marcos Velazco, denounced that at this hour political prisoners who are also on hunger strike are still not given medical access. “The authorities refuse to give truthful information about the release of political prisoners,” he said in a mes…
Caracas, Venezuela.- With tiredness, anguish and anger, women relatives of political prisoners entered on Monday on their third day of hunger strike in Caracas to press for more releases, after the passing of an amnesty law was postponed last week for the second time. The government of President Delcy Rodríguez announced on January 8 a process of liberations, under strong pressure from Washington after the overthrow of Nicolás Maduro on January …
The Unitary Democratic Platform (PUD) expressed solidarity on Monday, February 16, with the ten women relatives of political prisoners who remain in chains and on hunger strike outside the command of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), in Boleita, in Caracas, known as Zona 7, for more than 48 hours, to demand the release of their relatives. “We express our deepest solidarity with the families of the political prisoners who are currently on hun…
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