The first Control Court in Vargas ordered Ramón Blanco, 66 years old, and William Echarry, 70 years old, to be deprived of liberty under the crimes of “incitement to hatred and conspiracy”, for allegedly setting up a banner demanding their rights, This was announced this Monday Vente Venezuela on Twitter.
“These older adults are innocent. We demand justice in the face of this new arbitrariness of the regime that criminalizes and persecutes dissidence”, he pointed the blue party in the social network.
Agents of the Vargas state municipal police detained the social activists on Saturday, February 12.
According to Mover y Provea, older adults unfolded a banner over the weekend that read: “Venezuela asks for justice, out with Maduro.”
Provea, an NGO that defends human rights, called for the full freedom of social activists, who in their constitutional right protested in the coastal entity to demand better salary conditions for pensioners.
“Protesting is a right and in the midst of a crisis that condemns older adults to survive on less than two dollars a month. Punishing those who peacefully express their discontent revictimizes that sector of the population,” Provea said on Sunday.
Venezuelans demand better living conditions
The Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict (OVCS) highlighted last month that worker protests “led the country’s conflict” during 2021.
For the most part, according to the OVCS, Venezuelans “demanded respect for collective bargaining,” and at the same time demanded “decent wages to cover the basic basket” from the government of Nicolás Maduro.
In the midst of the covid-19 pandemic, workers and pensioners continued to exercise the human right to peaceful protest in the streets, despite the repressive actions perpetrated by the State security forces, as well as the outbreak of the virus.
#Alert | 1st court of control in #Vargasdictates deprivation of liberty for José Blanco (66) and William Echarry (68) under the crimes of Incitement to hatred and conspiracy, for allegedly setting up a banner demanding their rights. https://t.co/ZuZ6Iw4PDn
– Human Rights Vente Venezuela (@VenteDDHH) February 14, 2022
Protesting is a right and in the midst of a crisis that condemns older adults to survive on less than $2 a month, punishing those who peacefully express their discontent revictimizes that sector of the population
we demand #LibertadParaEcharryYBlancoYa pic.twitter.com/NFPybWhI6H
— PROVE (@_Provea) February 13, 2022