The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) released a statement this Thursday (10) in which it condemned the Nicolás Maduro regime for the imprisonment, torture and other forms of violence against children and adolescents in Venezuela.
The note highlighted that these young people are targets of illegal detention “and subjected to unimaginable humiliation and torture, in violation of all international conventions on human rights and reducing their limits of humanity and decency to the worst levels of barbarism”.
“The audio and reports from torture centers in Venezuela are frightening: minors who are tortured with electric shocks, beatings, lack of food or even sexual abuse. Their pain and their cries are a new, inevitable reason for all democrats to unequivocally demand an end to barbarism in Venezuela”, pointed out the General Secretariat of the OAS.
“According to some reports, there are minors detained on irrational and unfounded charges, such as terrorism and treason, and public complaints from numerous mothers, other family members and civil society confirm this,” the agency said.
“The General Secretariat of the OAS demands the immediate release of the minors kidnapped by the Venezuelan regime, that all types of torture be put to an end and that those materially and intellectually responsible for these infamous crimes be brought to justice,” he added.
The Maduro dictatorship intensified the repression of civil society following the protests that contested the July 28 electoral fraud in Venezuela. At least 27 people have been killed and another 1,784 have been detained by Chavista security forces since then.
According to the most recent bulletin from the NGO Foro Penal, released this Thursday morning, there are currently 1,916 political prisoners in Venezuela, of which 70 are teenagers aged between 14 and 17.
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