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March 29, 2018

Sixty eight killed in Venezuelan police station riot and fire

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Rioting and a fire in the cells of a Venezuelan police station in the central city of Valencia killed 68 people on Wednesday, according to the government and witnesses.

March 28, 2018

Venezuela: motín en PoliCarabobo, descenso al infierno

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March 23, 2018

Venezuela: el hambre, el peor azote de las cárceles

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March 13, 2018

The Franklin Masacre Survivors

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Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.

February 14, 2018

Motín en una cárcel de Venezuela: los reos tomaron como rehenes a cuatro presos políticos y a 50 custodios

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February 8, 2018

Venezuela: registrados 13 muertos en cárceles durante enero del presente año

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September 22, 2017

Venezuela : por lo menos 45 presos políticos corren riesgo de morir en cárceles del país

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September 21, 2017

Venezuela : dos privados de libertad murieron de hambre en cárceles de Los Teques y Táchira

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August 17, 2017

Venezuela: at least 37 dead in fight between inmates and security at Venezuela prison

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At least 37 people were killed during clashes between armed inmates and security forces at a small prison in southern Venezuela, the state’s governor said Wednesday. Gov. Liborio Guarulla said the bloodshed came after fighting erupted between inmates and their jailers Tuesday night in the prison in…

August 9, 2017

Venezuela: Urosa rechaza el encarcelamiento de los alcaldes opositores

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August 1, 2017

Venezuela: condena internacional por encarcelamiento de líderes opositores

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July 23, 2017

Venezuela: tras el conflicto en Fénix, el Ministerio de Cárceles no se pronunció

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July 3, 2017

Political police torture in Caracas (Venezuela)

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Electric shocks, beatings, waterboarding, asphyxiation with chemicals… A report denounces these practices.

June 24, 2017

Venezuela: prisoners say abuse is so bad they are forced to eat pasta mixed with excrement

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The headquarters of the Venezuelan intelligence service is a vast pyramid-shaped edifice known as the Helicoide, a former shopping mall which now functions as an interrogation pen for political prisoners and protesters. The 30-year-old economics student had heard enough about the infamous building…

June 1, 2017

Venezuela : detainees say they’re being beaten, tortured in police custody

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After enduring several minutes of beatings with fists and clubs, Erick Izaguirri, 27, was expecting the worst when he was dragged into an outpost of Venezuela’s National Guard.　 “They started to say, ‘Take his pants off, let’s stick the rifle in him,’ ” the anti-government protester recounted durin…

May 26, 2017

How an icon of Venezuelan architecture became a prison

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The Helicoide was going to be the world’s first drive-through mall. Now it is a prison that former inmates describe as hellish.

May 26, 2017

How an icon of Venezuelan architecture became a prison

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The Helicoide was going to be the world’s first drive-through mall. Now it is a prison that former inmates describe as hellish.

April 27, 2017

12 dead in Venezuelan prison clash

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An outbreak of violence between rival gangs at a prison in eastern Venezuela has left 12 dead and 11 injured, the government said Wednesday.

April 6, 2017

Venezuela faces prison system rife with corruption

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Venezuela’s prisons, which are rife with violence, weapons, drugs and criminality, have been placed under a new, tightly regulated regime, says the nation’s leftist government.

January 29, 2017

Venezuela: The Venezuelan Prison Observatory rejets the treatment and detention of Gilber Caro

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November 6, 2016

Venezuela : Los sobrevivientes de Franklin Masacre

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October 18, 2016

Venezuela : actes de cannibalisme dans une prison

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October 17, 2016

Venezuela : Man 'dismembered and eaten by inmates' during Venezuela prison riot, father claims

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The prison riots reportedly began when eight visitors and two guards were taken hostage over extreme overcrowding in the jail. A father has claimed his 25-year-old son was brutally murdered and eaten by inmates during a month-long riot at a Venezuelan prison.

September 28, 2016

Venezuela : vinculan hurto de granadas con pranes de la PGV y toma militar en Guárico

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“En los medios de comunicación social dicen que nosotros somos los que nos llevamos los fusiles y granadas del cuartel, pero si se rompió la seguridad de ellos, eso no es nuestra responsabilidad. A nosotros no nos interesan esas armas”, indicó uno de los líderes de los privados de libertad en la Pe…