An opponent denounces that in Venezuela there are “more than 300 political prisoners”

The opponent Venezuelan Humberto Prado, appointed Commissioner for Human Rights and Attention to Victims by former deputy Juan Guaidó, denounced this Saturday that there is “More than 300 political prisoners” in the country.

This was stated by Prado in a Twitter message in which he recalled that, among them, is the director of the NGO Fundaredes, Javier Tarazona, the leader of the Popular Will party (led by Leopoldo López) Roland Carreño and the Army Lieutenant Colonel Igbert Marín Chaparro, who started a hunger strike on December 21.

“We will continue to raise our voices for the weakest, we will continue to accompany the victims, we will continue to shout freedom for all political prisoners and we will continue to fight for the human rights of all”, Prado added in that social network.

Marín Chaparro began a hunger strike to denounce that he suffers “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment ” and requested that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the charge d’affaires of the European Union and the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See visit his detention center.

According to data released by the Venezuelan Justice organization, in the Caribbean country there are 252 soldiers prosecuted for political reasons, of which 180 are in prison.

The Venezuelan NGO Foro Penal denounced in its latest report, released last Wednesday, that there are 244 people detained in the country whom they consider political prisoners, of which 112 are civilians and 132 are military.