“The release ticket never arrives”
Diego Sierralta, son of the political prisoner Yenny Barrios, cancer patientdenounced on Wednesday that On several occasions they have informed him that they are going to release his mother, but the release ticket never arrives..
Through a video published on social networks, Sierralta confirmed that Barrios was transferred on Tuesday from the Pato e’ Palo detention center of the Bolivarian National Police, in the state of Lara, to the female annex of the Uribana prison, despite his delicate health condition.
«We don’t know what’s happening. The release ticket never arrives. If there is someone behind that, I hope they never have their mother with cancer. She was transferred yesterday to Uribana, a prison that is supposed to be for common prisoners,” said the young man.
#URGENT “How long will there be so much nonsense? Whoever is blocking this, I hope they never have their mother with cancer” the despair of Yenni Barrios’ son waiting for his mother’s release from prison to care for her at home as a cancer patient. pic.twitter.com/KGwDiY5tgU
— Andreina Ramos (@Aramoss8) December 6, 2024
Yenny Barrios’ son warns about his delicate state of health
He warned that his mother, detained in the post-election context, has been dealing with stress for 86 days, without sleeping well, and with inflammation in her legs due to her poor circulation. Yenny Barrios suffers from large cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and since his arrest in Carora, Lara state, in September, his chemotherapies have been interrupted.
«One more person is going to die in prison unjustly. “My mother is not a criminal, a terrorist or a hate-monger as they say,” added Sierralta.
On November 14, a little more than 40 days ago, political prisoner Jesús Manuel Martínez Medina died in State custody. He suffered necrosis in his legs due to the conditions of confinement he experienced in Anzoátegui.
The Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (OVP) warned that the government must guarantee the medical care of Yenny Barrios given his delicate health condition.
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