Lindomar Jesús Amaro Bustamanteone of the hundreds of detainees In Venezuela after fraudulent re -election of Nicolás Maduro In July last year, “in custody of the state” died while being in a state prison Aragua (North), two NGOs denounced this Sunday.
He Committee for the freedom of political prisoners He indicated, in an X publication that Amaro, who was arrested in the context of post -election crisis in the Cojedes state (center) by officials of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) while heading to his home on a motorcycle, took his life on Saturday.
“The reported cause was hanging inside your cell”Said the NGO.
Amaro, after his arrest, had been transferred to the Tocorón prisonin the Aragua state.
“According to relatives, Lindomar had already threatened his life and, although they warned him, he did not receive medical attention or protection. This omission aggravates the responsibility of the State for an avoidable death,” the publication added.
The organization also warned that Jhoandri Joel Silva Laraalso arrested after the presidential elections last July, “tried to commit suicide” in the same prison.
“He was recently discharged from the military Hospital of Maracay (Capital of Aragua) after a nervous breakdown caused by confinement, abuse and anguish by his youngest daughter,” said the committee.
The NGO said that the “extreme suffering” of young people detained after the presidentials, many in Tocorón, has been denounced, “”Submitted to inhuman conditions, torture, suicide attempts, nervous breakdowns and incommunication”.
“All this responds to a pattern that seeks to break their resistance and silence their relatives through fear and reprisals,” he added.
The Committee demanded that the Nicolás Maduro regime guarantee the integrity of all detainees, as well as investigating this death and all those that occurred in custody, “sanctioning those responsible, including the current director of the prison, Juan Carlos Quezadaindicated by relatives as one of the main responsible for the subhuman conditions ”.
He also said that with this event “there are already at least six people deceased in custody of the Venezuelan State between 2024 and what goes from 2025”.
The body of Amaro, the committee detailed, was transferred to Cojedes, where “was buried expressly” this Sunday.
Nonetheless, Mothers in Defense of Truth He argued, in a statement, that they have denounced before the Public Prosecutor (MP, Prosecutor’s Office), the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) and the Ministry of Penitentiary Services the “bad quality and the insufficient amount of food and water received by those deprived of liberty, which has caused a significant loss of weight and serious stomach problems.”
“Likewise, we have warned about physical punishments and psychological torture to which our relatives are being subjected,” he added.
The organization denounced that both young people had been “in punishment and isolation for 15 days.”
According to the NGO Criminal Forum, In Venezuela there are 906 political prisonersmost of them after protests against the official result of the presidential elections.
In this count, the NGO indicated the detainees are divided into 815 men and 91 women, of which 901 are adults and five are teenagers between 14 and 17 years of age.
According to the organization, 737 of prisoners are civilians and 169 military.
Likewise, Criminal Forum calculates that, from 2014 to date, a total of 18,334 “political arrests” have been carried out in the Caribbean nation.
For its part, the NGO Public space Last year registered 99 arrests for “expressing opinions” in Venezuela, an increase of 254 % compared to 2023, when he documented 28 cases, according to the annual report of the non -governmental organization published this Friday.
Public space warned that the presidential ones “marked a negative milestone in the guarantee of human rights” in the country.
The non -governmental organization said that “an intensification of persecution and harassment against citizens was documented, especially towards political opponents, activists and journalists.”
This week, relatives of political prisoners asked the Him in Caracas that interposes his “good offices” in favor of the liberation of their loved ones.
(With EFE information)
