US EditionVenezuelan Opposition Politician Under House Arrest After Kidnap, Son Says
Guanipa was placed under house arrest after release and rearrest, amid claims of political repression and over 30 opposition detainees freed recently, rights group Foro Penal said.
- On Tuesday, Juan Pablo Guanipa was placed under house arrest at his home in Maracaibo, his family said two days after his release from prison.
- Attorney General Tarek William Saab's office said it requested the competent court to revoke Juan Pablo Guanipa’s precautionary measure after his Sunday release following a U.N. rights visit.
- Ramón Guanipa told reporters that a group of armed men in three vehicles intercepted his father in Caracas on Sunday, and Guanipa was rearrested hours later after joining demonstrations; he showed a court document proving no violations of monthly court check‑ins and a no‑travel condition.
- Foro Penal confirmed at least 30 releases on Sunday, with some freed, including Guanipa, joining families waiting outside detention facilities and María Oropeza among those released.
- The rearrest marks a new twist in Venezuela’s political turmoil after Jan. 3, with opposition leader Machado warning the government fears civic mobilization, and authorities releasing prisoners amid pressure.
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Juan Pablo Guanipa was released on February 8 at 9 a.m. At 11:45 a.m. on the same day, he was arrested again by approximately ten officers without visible identification. His son, Ramón, witnessed everything. But the story does not end in a cell. Today, Guanipa is under house arrest in Maracaibo. His son published in X: «I confirm that my father, Juan Pablo Guanipa, is in my house in Maracaibo. We are relieved to know that my family will be toge…
The recycled chavismo stripped its true nature at midnight on Sunday because they feared losing control. Two were the victims: the first, Juan Pablo Guanipa,...
The prominent Venezuelan opposition politician who was arrested again hours after his release has been placed under house arrest, his son announced. Juan Pablo Guanipa (61) was released last Sunday after more than eight months in captivity. According to his son, Ramon Guanipa, he is at home in Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city. "My father remains unjustly imprisoned, because house arrest is still imprisonment," he wrote. "We demand his …
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Venezuelan authorities move Machado ally to house arrest
A close ally of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was placed under house arrest Tuesday, detained just hours after his release from prison along with other dissidents jailed under ousted leader Nicolas Maduro.
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