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The Venezuelan opposition deputy Juan Requesens left jail this Friday to serve house arrest, after 752 days in prison for his alleged participation in the failed attack against President Nicolás Maduro on August 4, 2018.
Since his arrest, the Primero Justicia party, of which Requesens is a member and the two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, reiterated that “he is innocent” and that he was imprisoned for political reasons, like other opposition deputies from Venezuela.
“Although today my brother will be able to sleep at home and in his bed, there are many INNOCENT Venezuelans who cannot do it. We will not stop fighting for them,” Rafaela Requesens, the deputy’s sister, wrote on his Twitter account.
Although today my brother will be able to sleep at home and in his bed, there are many INNOCENT Venezuelans who cannot. We will not stop fighting for them.
– Rafaela Requesens (@RRequesens) August 28, 2020
In this regard, he assured that the family is happy, but is “very clear that Juan is not free yet” and, therefore, they will not “stop fighting until he and all of Venezuela are free.”
Rafaela Requesens accompanied the message of two photos in which you can see the very thin deputy, covered with a mask on one of them and smiling while looking at a mobile phone in another.
Capriles also published a video on social networks in which Requesens can be seen arriving at his house, greeting his family and his lawyer, Joel García, with a smile.
Requesens, who began his career as a student activist, greets his partner in the video and asks him not to make him cry and states: “Two years, we keep going.”
García also explained on his Twitter account that Requesens “had his detention site changed” and “he is in his residence with police custody.”
Requesens was arrested and accused of being part of the failed attack that Maduro suffered, with a drone loaded with explosives. Since then he has been detained at El Helicoide, a center of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin).
As García has denounced on several occasions, the legislator “has not been able to defend himself” at any stage of the judicial process, not even during the trial that formally began in November 2019 and has been suspended since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. .
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