The second of the Venezuelan regime, and Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Hairrecognized in his weekly program “Con el Mazo Dando” that the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro children and adolescents are being detained after the protests that followed the presidential elections of July 28, in which fraud was perpetrated against the country’s opposition.
“Poor children who are detained”Cabello ironically said. “There they are putting pressure on the poor political prisoners, with those children who are detained,” he added.
Later, Cabello attacked the parents of the detained minors: “Where were the parents of those children on July 29 and 30? Where were they? “They are going to worry about their children now,” he claimed.. “They should have worried before,” questioned the two from chavismowhile confirming that those responsible for the minors are required to sign a bond for their release.
This same week, the attorney general of Venezuela that responds to ChavismoTareck William Saab, denied that there are children detained after the protests that followed the controversial July elections, questioned for lack of transparency, but admitted that at least 10% of those imprisoned since then are between 16 and 17 years old.
Faced with criticism from organizations and pressure from the families of the minors who were arrested in the context of the post-election protests – in which the authorities were asked to make the official results transparent – the attorney general Tarek William Saab He rejected the accusations before the press.
The official said that there is a campaign—which he attributed to the opposition—to discredit the regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro and stated that in Venezuela there are no children detained for having demonstrated.
However, Saab admitted that about 10% of those imprisoned are between 16 and 17 years old.
According to the NGO Criminal Forumat least 69 minors, between 14 and 17 years old, were deprived of liberty since July 29.
In Venezuela There are 1,963 political prisoners, according to the latest balance of the Penal Forum published this week, thus registering five more compared to the count of the previous week. The NGO detailed that, of the total, 1,836 were arrested after the electoral fraud on July 28, when the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared the winner of the presidential elections dictator Nicolás Maduro without showing the minutes.
On the other hand, 1,720 are men and 243 women, while 1,801 are civilians and 162 are military, always according to the organization, which claims to register “the largest number of prisoners for political purposes known in Venezuela, at least, in the 21st century”. Likewise, the Criminal Forum clarifies that, in addition to political prisoners, there are still more than 9,000 people in the country who remain “arbitrarily subject to measures restricting their freedom.”
