The Mothers Committee in defense of the Truth denounced the death of Lindomar Bustamente, 27, who He had been arrested for nine months in the context of post -election mobilizations.
Bustamente, a motorcycle and worker, died while being held in the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, allegedly for suicide by hanging, according to the press release released by the mothers in defense of the truth.
The organization also denounced that there is what defined as “contradictory information” about the health status of Jhoandri Joel Silva, a 26 -year -old worker arrested near a pharmacy he went to buy an anticonvulsive for his daughteralso within the framework of post -election repression.
“We express our solidarity with their families. The pain they are living, is also ours and we will accompany them so that there is justice,” said the committee.
The mothers stated that cases of Lindomar Bustamente and Jhoandri Joel Silva show that the state “Not only is it not protecting the life of our boys, but is destroying them.”
“Our boys are innocent. Many were not even protesting and were arrested in alcabalas or in their homes, for a delation. Others did protest peacefully after 28J, which is not a crime but a right. And others committed small offenses, such as destroying political propagand Submitted to unworthy imprisonment conditions, ”he said.
The committee indicated that He has denounced the lousy quality and insufficient quantity of food and water received by the deprived of libertywhich has caused them “a significant weight loss and serious stomach problems.”
“We have warned about physical punishments and psychological torture to which our relatives are being subjected. Recently, a senior official of the Ministry of Penitentiary Services threatened our loved ones, warning them that they would remain in prison for years as punishment for the events that occur Angustia of the detainees, which largely explains the recent incidents that affected Lindomar and Jhoandri, ”he said.
According to the information available, Lindomar and Jhoandri had been in punishment and isolation for 15 days. “For several months, both were completely incommunicado from abroad (…). This combination of circumstances dramatically exacerbated its isolation status, ”said the committee.
“As mothers, sisters, couples, aunts, grandmothers and other relatives of those boys, we demand that state institutions investigate the context and the conditions in which the death of Lindomar was produced and those responsible are sanctioned. We also demand that the health status of Jhoandry be clarified, stop the cruelty and immediately release our boys,” said the mothers.
The committee requested that freedom measures be granted, while the trials continue, and then the criminal action is extinguished through an amnesty law. “They have no more dead in their consciences. Enough of violence and pain in our country,” he claimed.
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