The Chavista court ordered the detention of Edgar Zambrano at the Fuerte Tiuna military prison

A court of competent jurisdiction in the field of terrorism He ordered the deprivation of liberty of the first vice-president of Parliament, Edgar Zambrano, who will be tried by the ordinary courts, and established as the detention center the police headquarters of the main military fort of Venezuela, Fuerte Tiuna.

In a statement of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), it is explained in detail that an ordinary court ordered the preventive detention of Zambrano "for the blatant commission of crimes of treason, conspiracy, civil rebellion, usurpation of office, public incitement to disobedience of laws and persistent hatred"

The deprivation of liberty of the citizens Rosario Pedro, Abrahan Rodríguez, Martín Hernández and Martín Peña, who accompanied Zambrano Wednesday during his arrest.

Zambrano was arrested on Wednesday, May 8, in the evening after parliamentary immunity was lifted by the ruling National Constituent Assembly. According to Zambrano's own story, he and his companions were "surprised by the Sebin" and refusing to leave the vehicle in which they were "used a crane" to transfer them "forcibly" to the headquarters of the intelligence agency.

The Vice President of the National Assembly is one of the ten deputies accused by Chavez TSJ of having participated in the uprising on April 30 under the leadership of Guaidor, recognized as interim president of Venezuela for more than 50 countries.

The lawyer of Zambrano, Lilia Camejo, denounced irregularities in its process. "Upon arrest, they violated the rights of the deputy, we did not have access to the file and we could not be named in his defense," Camejo told reporters, who also wondered why a civilian had been sent to a military prison..

Guaidó rejected the official offensive as an attempt to "dismantle Parliament", the only institution in the hands of the opposition.