(31 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 21 January 2025
1. Various of relatives of prisoners holding their picture at a protest in front of the Public Ministry
2. Antonio Gonzalez, Human Rights activist, at protest
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Gonzalez, Human Rights activist: ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"The vast majority of these young people are innocent, they were not participating in any violent act. Some were exercising their right to demonstrate in a peaceful manner, and some, the fewest, may have committed some acts of vandalism such as destroying political propaganda but they are being accused of terrorism for petty crimes or in some cases not even crimes or misdemeanors at all. These young people have been deprived of their freedom for 6 months in undignified conditions. They were held incommunicado during the first days. Some of them were mistreated and tortured."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 17 January 2025
4. Various of a former prisoner serving lunch on a plate
5. Wide of prisoner sitting for interview ++BLURRED AT SOURCE++
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Former prisoner, Name withheld to protect identity: ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"I have heard the testimonies. I have read the testimonies. I have met torture survivors. And they take me there. That’s when I said, well… that’s when I entrusted myself to God. I said: ‘Well, God take care of my life, because it doesn’t depend on me anymore. That’s when I felt fear."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Former prisoner, name withheld to protect identity: ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++
“Nobody gets anything back. One or the other recovered his vehicle, his motorcycle. But most of us have not recovered anything. They instilled fear. They instilled the idea of no longer participating politically in anything, which does great damage to any society that wants progress and development in any country. Because if we were already a country that was far away from politics, where we have people, instead of citizens, now the situation is going to be even worse."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 22 January 2025
9. Wide of street in favela in Caracas
10. Various of mother of a former prisoner walking towards her mother’s house
11. Mother of former prisoner entering her mother house
12. The mother and family at the house
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mother of former prisoner, name withheld to protect identity: ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"You say terrorism, those were the charges brought against these boys, the first one: terrorism. And what are you doing when you stand up and terrorize people on camera? Or when you send these people (security forces) to carry out terrorism. Because just as I experienced it, so did many neighbours who were scared and didn’t let children go out all day, at night they didn’t go out to skate, to run, they didn’t go out because they were afraid. That is terrorism. That is terrorism."
14. Wide of Caracas ++DUSK SHOT++
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mother of former prisoner, name withheld to protect identity: ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"Because it is a terror, a fear that one has in one’s veins. Even your bones tremble when you see that they ask for your ID card, that they can grab your phone and just because you have a flag on your phone they can take you to jail. That is horrible."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Carabobo, Venezuela – 20 January 2025
15. Various of relatives of prisoners outside Tocuyito prison
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro labeled them terrorists on national television.
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