Jesús Martínez Medina, 36, who suffered from sort II diabetes and had coronary heart issues, died in political custody on the morning of November 14.
His household confirmed his dying to Venezuelan impartial outlet El Pitazo. Medina was detained on July 29 within the northeastern state of Anzoategui, after being an electoral witness through the disputed presidential election.
Based on human rights NGO Foro Penal, 1,848 individuals have been detained for political causes because the July 28 election, when protests broke out in opposition to the electoral authority’s (CNE) proclamation of Nicolás Maduro because the winner of the presidency. That is the largest variety of political prisoners in Venezuela within the twenty first century.
Whereas Martínez was imprisoned in police headquarters in Anzoategui, he developed abscesses on his pores and skin on account of being denied medical care to deal with his diabetes.
On November 8, lawyer and ex-prosecutor Zair Mundaray denounced how Martínez was not supplied medical consideration till his total leg was contaminated. He was transferred to the Luis Razzetti hospital in Barcelona, Anzoategui state and remained there till his dying.
On the hospital, Martínez was not allowed an ultrasound to see if his leg ought to be amputated, Mundaray explained in a publish on X.
Martínez’s dying has been condemned by a number of human rights activists, NGOs and opposition political events and leaders.
Opposition chief Maria Corina Machado issued an announcement, affirming that Martinez’s dying was “one other crime by Maduro and his regime.”
The political chief added that Martínez “died by the hands (of the federal government), he died due to the inhumane situations underneath which he was held. To his mom, Mary, and his younger daughter Susej, and all his companions, I ship all my energy, my care and my blessings.”
An announcement from the opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Platform (PUD), stated that Martinez’s “case displays the inhumane situations” confronted by “practically 2,000 political prisoners in Venezuelan prisons.”
Edmundo González Urrutia, the presidential candidate for the Unitary Platform extensively believed to have received the election, called Martinez “one of many heroes who on July 28 defended the vote of greater than 7 million Venezuelans who voted for change.”
The Venezuelan opposition gathered and revealed over 80% of precinct-level voting tabulations, with the assistance of electoral witnesses like Martínez. These precinct-level outcomes show that González received the election with 7.3 million votes (67%) in comparison with Maduro’s 3.3 million (30%).
González added that “the dying of Jesús will not be an remoted case; it’s proof of a regime that extensively and systematically punishes, denies and eliminates those that elevate their voice.”
