They denounce the transfer of political prisoner Yenny Barrios to the Uribana prison
Thepolitical prisoner Yenny Barrios, oncology patient, 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 prisonaccording to a complaint from the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (OVP).
Through social networks, the NGO indicated that the government must guarantee the medical care of Yenny Barrios given her delicate health condition.
Barrios, detained in Carora, Lara state, by security officials in the context of post-election protests, suffers from large cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Since her arrest in September, the patient’s chemotherapies have been interrupted.
Barrios’s son, Diego Sierralta, has persistently requested that she be released for health reasons.
“To the prosecutor Tarek William Saab: we need your help so that my mother can get out of there and receive the care she needs, my mother is dying there, please,” Sierralta cried in a video published on social networks on Sunday.
The OVP recalled that on November 14, 40 days ago, political prisoner Jesús Manuel Martínez Medina died in State custody, suffering necrosis in his legs due to the conditions of confinement in Anzoátegui.
“We should not expect another death to occur again under the indolent gaze of the State,” the OVP warned.
They denounce irregular transfer of political prisoners
He Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners (Clippve) reported that 29 political prisoners who were at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) in Lechería, Anzoátegui state, were transferred irregularly on Tuesday.
The group, made up of relatives of Venezuelans arbitrarily detained by the State, indicated that the women were taken from the police station on a bus, presumably to the Las Crisálidas prison, in Los Teques, Miranda state.
The Clippve also confirmed the transfer of at least 10 political prisoners from the PNB headquarters in Los Guayos, in the state of Carabobo, to the women’s annex of the Tocuyito prison.
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