(16 Dec 2024)
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Tocuyito, Venezuela – 16 December 2024
1. Various of relatives outside Tocuyito prison
2. Prisoner gesturing towards relatives
3. Guard
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yurimar Bermudez, Prisoner’s relative:
"When I got here I got the news (of a prisoner dying in custody). A man died, that’s what we have been told. And so we are very nervous, because today it was him, tomorrow we don’t know who might be."
5. Various of ambulance outside prison
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gleydis Chavez, Prisoner’s relative:
"We are threatened when we enter to visit so that we don’t say anything because it is our sons (prisoners) who will pay. How long are they going to threaten us? How long are they going to keep our mouths shut? Anyone who opposes the regime goes to jail. It is not a lie. They (the government) say this is not political. It is political, sir, it is political."
7. Various of women holding hands and singing the national anthem
8. Various of woman crying
9. Various of people with their hands on fencing
STORYLINE:
Relatives of prisoners held in one of Venezuela’s most notorious high-security prisons stood anxiously outside after learning that one of the detainees was reported to have died in custody.
Osgual González, a 43 year-old man, was confirmed dead by his family, and his body was taken to the local morgue.
The cause of death is still unconfirmed. Local media reported he suffered a bacterial infection.
He is the second prisoner to have died inside Tocuyito prison in recent months following Venezuela’s presidential election.
Yurimar Bermudez’ son is detained in Tocuyito. "We are very nervous because today it was him (the man who died), tomorrow, we don’t know who might be."
It comes as Venezuela’s Attorney General announced that a review of cases linked to unrest following Venezuela’s Presidential elections resulted in 533 releases. It wasn’t immediately clear how many of those orders have been executed.
President Nicolás Maduro ordered the review amid increasing pressure from the international community. A repression campaign his government unleashed after the election led to the arrests of more than 2,000 adults and minors.
Venezuela’s governing party, which controls all aspects of government, tightened the crackdown on dissent after it and the opposition both claimed to have won the July 28 vote, prompting nationwide protests.
At least 24 people were killed in the demonstrations, and a human rights watchdog has implicated state security forces in some of the deaths.
AP Video by Randolfo Blanco
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