They denounced the irregular transfer of prisoners in the protests

The NGO Foro condemned this Friday for the transfer of prisoners in the state of Nueva Esparta (island) during the post-election protests, without the relatives of these people knowing “where they are being taken”, which n tantamount – said the organization – to “breach” the Constitution.

“The family members do not know where they (the prisoners) are being taken.” They identify an aircraft prepared for transfer from Margarita Island. We remember that the authorities, by not informing the prisoners and their families where they are going to transfer them, are breaking (…) the Constitution,” warned the Punishment Forum through X.

Similarly, the NGO said that the prisoners were prevented from “appointing lawyers they trust as defence”, a practice – they said – which has been happening in “the majority of cases of joint arrests – post-election text.”

The organization registers 1,780 prisoners – of which 1,550 are men and 230 women – during the protests against the official result of the July 28 presidential elections, when the electoral authorities announced the victory of Nicolás Maduro, which the largest coalition which the opposition considers to be a “fraud” and is questioned by a large part of the international community.

Likewise, the anti-Chavista bloc asserts that its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, is the president-elect according to “83.5% of the electoral records” which they say have been collected through witnesses and members of polling stations on the night of the election, to support his complaint of fraud in the presidential elections, documents which the Government calls “false.”

According to official figures, during the post-election protests more than 2,400 prisoners and 25 deaths were recorded, and the Government blames the opposition parties for that, while international bodies such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have denying the “arbitrary use of force. ” by part of the State.

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