The international community sues Nicolás Maduro’s regime the release of the Hispanic Venezuelan human rights activist, Rocio San Miguel and five members of his family, whose whereabouts are still unknown following their forced arrest by secret police officers this weekend in Caracas.
The United States is “very worried” for the arrest of the activist and expert on military issues in Venezuela and is following the situation “very, very closely,” a White House spokesperson said Tuesday.
“We are aware of reports that Rocío San Miguel, and I believe a couple of members of her family, have been arrested. We are deeply concerned about this,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
“I won’t go into speculation about what exactly happened here or what we might do as a result. “But I can tell you that we are following this very, very closely.”He added.
Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Rocío del Carmen San Miguel Sosa; Miranda Díaz San Miguel, daughter; Miguel Ángel San Miguel Sosa, brother; Alberto San Miguel Quigosos, brother; Víctor Díaz Paruta, Miranda’s father; Alejandro González Canales, Rocío’s former partner.
San Miguel’s arrest took place on Friday the 9th at Maiquetía airport in Caracas as he was about to take a flight abroad with his daughter Miranda San Miguel, a 24-year-old journalist, who returned to the city to alert her family of what had happened. And the arrest of the five members of his family took place the next day.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during his weekly program “Maduro+” in Caracas. EFE photoAttorney General Tarek William Saab confirmed the arrest of Rocío San Miguel on Friday the 9th and her family on her behalf but he did not clarify where they are kept.both in the political prison of SEBIN and in the military counter-espionage cells of the DGCIM.
Saab specified that the crimes attributed to the president of the NGO Citizen Control are treason, conspiracy, terrorism and association in the conspiratorial plot against the government of Nicolás Madurocalled “white bracelet”.
The public prosecutor did not specify the place of confinement or the health condition of the lawyer and expert in military matters when he announced that he will officially request the prison measure before the Second Court against Terrorism against the lawyer and director of the NGO Control Ciudadano, Rocio San. Miguel.
Lawyer Juan González Taguaruco, defender of San Miguel, denounces the “forced disappearance” of him and his family group, underlining that they went to several places of detention and were denied that the activist is in any . He points to the information offered by Tarek William Saab it is full of irregularities because it leaves a lot of blind spots in your public information.
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Regarding the seriousness of forced disappearances, the lawyer González denounced “the state of absolute defenselessness, there is no way to resist the fact that, when a State plots to remove a person from his social environment, these things happen, there is no ‘is no way to know. “Where it is there is no way to defend it, the State can do anything with it, without anyone being able to exercise any kind of control in the face of these extreme measures.”
Help Spain
In conversation with ClarionMinnie Díaz Paruta, told how her niece Miranda and her father Víctor Díaz Paruta were detained at Maiquetía airport while they went to collect their suitcase for the flight to Miami that they had missed the day before due to the arrest of Rocío San Miguel.
“Rocío is innocent of the charges against her, as well as the entire family group, who were harassed and persecuted by the Venezuelan authorities without any explanation,” he said.
Minnie asked the Spanish government for help to ”guarantee the human rights of Rocío and Miranda, who are also Spanish and Venezuelan and whose life is in mortal danger given the situation in the country’s prisons. The accusations against Rocío and her current partner Alejandro González are absolutely false.”
Nazi torture
The harassment and persecution of which the relatives of the activist San Miguel were victims reminiscent of Nazi methodsknown as “Sippenhaft”, it was used to torture and soften the relatives of political prisoners and dissidents during the Hitler era.
The former president of the interim government, Juan Guaido, in exile in Miami, accused the president of the Chavista National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, of using Nazi methods against Venezuelans. “Here they have the person responsible for the torture of Rocío San Miguel make their relatives disappear. Sippenhaft defined them as Nazis and the UN already points out to Maduro in its independent report this aberration which he is applying again today to instill terror. And out of cowardice, to justify that they do not obey, nor have a word: the executioners pretend to be victims”, he wrote in
The next step that lawyer González will take will be to “apply in writing to the Prosecutor’s Office, to the Office of the Ombudsman, because evidently it is a case that concerns these two bodies of public power and it is they who exercise these powers in Venezuela.” .”
Support from the international community
The US Embassy in Venezuela spoke in X: “The arrest of Rocío San Miguel of Citizen Control and her family members in Venezuela, a worrying trend continues of seemingly arbitrary arrests of democratic actors. We join the international community in calling for the release of all political prisoners, an end to the detention of their innocent family members, and a return to the commitments set out in the Barbados Agreement.”
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the X case: the IACHR condemns the forced disappearance of the defender, beneficiary of precautionary measures, Rocío San Miguel and urges the State to inform you of where you are and ensure respect for their judicial guarantees and the presumption of innocence.
For his part, the OAS secretary calls for the release of Rocío San Miguel and an end to the political persecution.
Source: Clarin
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