Relatives of those detained after elections in Venezuela ask for releases. They warn that they will march to the Miraflores Palace on December 1

( Spanish) – On their knees, between prayers and tears, relatives of those detained after the controversial elections in Venezuela gathered in front of the Palace of Justice, headquarters of the courts in the center of Caracas, to read a letter addressed to President Nicolás Maduro in which they denounce that Their relatives were unjustly detained and are in inhumane conditions, which is why they ask for dialogue to achieve their prompt release.

The relatives of the detainees clarify that their goal is to build peace and that, if they are not heard, they will gather on December 1st at the doors of the Miraflores Palace, the seat of the Government.

“We are writing to you to open a sincere dialogue with the Venezuelan people. Just as you have dialogued with other sectors of the country, we also ask you to open a dialogue with the Venezuelan people, especially through us mothers,” Dionexis García said when reading said letter.

In the text signed by the relatives of several people imprisoned – some for participating in the protests and others in different circumstances – they highlight that instead of being heard and understood they have been “silenced” and “apart from each other.” They say that it deeply hurts them how they have denied detainees the right to the presumption of innocence and taken away their right to have a private lawyer they trust.

The relatives have gone twice before the Public Ministry, as well as the Supreme Court of Justice and the Ministry of Penitentiary Affairs to present their requests, without having received a response so far.

contacted the Attorney General’s Office, the Judiciary, the Ministry of Penitentiary Affairs and the Ministry of Communication of Venezuela to obtain more information about the detainees and the allegations of their relatives, without having received a response so far.

Both the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, and the Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, have insisted that human rights and due process are respected for all those detained in the country. Meanwhile, opposition leaders such as María Corina Machado and Edmundo González ask for full freedom and respect for the human rights of all those imprisoned.

After the presidential elections on July 28 in which Nicolás Maduro was announced as the winner, there were protests from those who claim that the winner was Edmundo González Urrutia.

The opposition has gone to different international bodies to present the minutes collected that would vindicate their victory.

The electoral authorities have not published the results broken down by center and voting station, nor the minutes that would support the figures presented by the Electoral Branch. Many countries require this data to recognize Maduro as the winner of the race.