Leopoldo Lopez Comes Out Of Jail And Goes To House Arrest

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Venezuela has seen the light this weekend. Finally new news for a country that is having a terrible time. Venezuelans have celebrated the release of 46-year-old Leopoldo López from prison.

The political prisoner, detained since February 2014, has been placed under house arrest and has been at home with his family since early Saturday morning. This has been confirmed in the networks by the Spanish Javier Cremades, one of his lawyers.

Leopoldo López is at his home in Caracas with Lilian and her children. He is not yet free, he is still under house arrest. They took him out at dawn,”wrote Javier on his Twitter profile.

This is a new measure, known in Venezuela as “house for jail”, and that occurs after several months of strong protests in the streets against the Nicolás Maduro regime, which has resulted in 89 fatalities.

The conditions in which the arrested was found were serious. López had not seen his lawyers for 90 days and under severe conditions of isolation in the Ramo Verde military prison tower, on the outskirts of Caracas. His parents, Antonieta Mendoza and Leopoldo López Gil, have been his greatest supports and defenders each from a place in the world. His father from Spain, where he is exiled, and his mother from the country of events where he has always visited him and even cheered up from outside the prison when he could not see him.

López himself was heard during the month of June from his prison screaming that I was mistreated. They are torturing me! Denounce!” And this was done by his wife, Lilian Tintori, who disclosed the complaint through a video that he published on his Twitter account.

Although he is still under arrest, at least he is with his family and with the possibility of recovering physically and psychologically from the unjust treatment suffered all these years. The whole world celebrates López's release from prison and hopes this is the beginning of the change.

In February of this year, it was Donald Trump himself who was requesting the release of the Venezuelan opponent.