Venezuela holds hundreds of political prisoners. For each of them, an entire family is suffering. Lilia Camejo and Joel García, two human rights lawyers, tell us about the hidden reality of state persecution. By Kaoru Yonekura. Full Text ->CaracasChronicles

Traducción de cortesía -> Venezuela tiene cientos de presos políticos. Por cada uno de ellos, una familia entera está sufriendo. Lilia Camejo y Joel García, dos abogados de derechos humanos, nos cuentan la realidad oculta de la persecución estatal

El director de la organización, Gonzalo Himiob…. Detalló que, del total de registros, 224 son hombres y 15 son mujeres -entre ellos un menor de edad-, de los cuales, 107 son civiles y 132 militares. Esta lista, que no es pública, es verificada y certificada por la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) y se remite semanalmente a la Oficina de la Alta Comisionada de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos. Texto Completo -> Gestión

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Michelle Bachelet, la alta comisionada de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, se pronunció el lunes 13 de septiembre para reiterar su preocupación por la detención y criminalización de defensores de los derechos humanos y líderes sindicales en Venezuela. Texto completo ->ElDiario

Courtesy translation -> Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, spoke on Monday, September 13 to reiterate her concern about the arrest and criminalization of human rights defenders and union leaders in Venezuela.

The non-governmental organization specified in its Twitter account that of the total number of prisoners, 259 are men, 16 are women, and one is an adolescent.They also pointed out that 146 are civilians and 129 are military personnel. Full Text -> TheRioTimes

The persecution right now is super strong, never in the Venezuelan democratic history (…) the worker has been persecuted as much as it is persecuted now,” said the coordinator of the coalition’s judicial sector, lawyer Emilio Negrín, in an interview with Eph. Negrín, now a dissident of Chavismo, indicated that so far this year there have been 11 arrests of union leaders and that, in total, there are 151 leaders imprisoned for about 10 years. Full Text-> MarketResearchTelecast

According to the organization, in a post via Twitter, of the total number of reported prisoners, there are 260 men and 16 women. Also, among the detainees, there are 147 civilians, including a teenager, and 129 soldiers. As a result, the total number of such arrests has reached 15,734 since 2014. The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, reported via the same social network that he certifies the list of prisoners in the Caribbean. nation. Full Text -> TheManometCurrent

“We have been able to corroborate the transfer to Yare II, Yare III and Rodeo II of 17 prisoners of conscience,” confirmed former deputy Delsa Solórzano in a message posted on her Twitter account yesterday. Solórzano reiterated today that the transfers of “political prisoners” to common jails are “extremely serious, because Venezuela’s prisons are among the most dangerous in the world with 350 murdered a year.”

A Venezuelan criminal court in a Wednesday hearing ordered that a trial begin for Matthew Heath, a US citizen detained in the South American country on terrorism charges and accused of being a US spy, Heath’s lawyer said on Thursday. Full Text -> Aljazeera

A former Venezuelan prison inmate details his experience while detained. Democratic governments and human rights organizations have long criticized Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and his socialist dictatorship for extensive abuses. By Andrew Thomas. Full Video -> NTD News.

Venezuela’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday opposition activist Roland Carreno had been arrested, hours after opposition leader Juan Guaido denounced what he called the “forced disappearance” of the Popular Will party’s coordinator. Chief Prosecutor Tarek Saab wrote on Twitter that Carreno had been detained for alleged “participation in conspirative plans against the democratic peace” and his office had assigned a prosecutor to the case. By by Vivian Sequera, Deisy Buitrago, Brian Ellsworth and Luc Cohen. Full Text -> Reuters