US EditionVenezuela’s top prosecutor orders the arrest of opposition leader’s ally, hours after his release
Venezuela's prosecutor seeks house arrest for opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa hours after his release amid 383 political prisoners freed since January, rights group Foro Penal said.
- On Monday, Maria Corina Machado said Juan Pablo Guanipa was kidnapped hours after his release, taken in the Los Chorros neighbourhood of Caracas.
- Freed on Sunday, Juan Pablo Guanipa was released after more than eight months in custody as part of a limited prisoner release programme launched earlier this year.
- Family members reported that Guanipa was ambushed by about 10 unidentified people at 11:45 p.m. Sunday; Foro Penal said, `We do not have clear information about who took him`.
- The Public Prosecutor's Office sought a court to revoke Juan Pablo Guanipa's conditional release, alleging breach of terms and requesting house arrest "in order to safeguard the criminal proceedings."
- Amid a wider prisoner-release effort, lawmakers preparing to vote Tuesday on an amnesty bill face uncertainty as rights groups report nearly 400 freed since Jan. 8 and around 700 still waiting.
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Juan Pablo Guanipa’s arrest shows Venezuela’s regime still controls the machinery of repression
The detention of the opposition leader, just hours after his release, is intended to signal that the authorities remain firmly in charge. ‘There are people who think they can do whatever they want,’ warned Diosdado Cabello
Juan Pablo Guanipa Placed Under House Arrest After Violating Release Terms
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Monday morning, Venezuela’s Public Prosecutor’s Office reported the revocation of the conditional liberty granted to far-right politician Juan Pablo Guanipa following verification that he failed to comply with his release conditions. After revoking the measure, the office announced that Guanipa has been placed under house arrest. On social media, far-right politicians and operators, along with pro-US mainstream me…
By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español. Venezuelan Interior and Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello said Monday that opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa was arrested just hours after being released from prison for “violating” the conditions of his release. “Some politicians thought they could do whatever they wanted and create chaos in the country by violating the very conditions under which they were granted their freedom,” Cabello said during the …
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