In search of self-censorship regime criminalizes users in social networks

Pedro Jaimes, a prisoner tweeter for having published the itinerary of the presidential plane on May 3, his family has not been seen since the 12th of the month, when he was arrested by the Sebin in Los Teques. The lawyers did not have access to the record after 57 days of detention, published Chronicle One .

The "crime" of Pedro Jaimes tweeted. From @AeroMeteo, his account in the social network, published on his hobby: meteorological weather and airspace. But suspended the image with the road of the presidential plane, May 3, while he was flying the skies of Aragua, took him to jail on the 10th of this month , when officials of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) arrested him without a court order in Los Teques, State of Miranda

Two days later, lawyers Amado Vivas and Ricardo Rosales, of the Civil Society Association of public space, who brought the case, did not see it.

The same story is repeated with his relatives, who have more than 57 days without seeing it where, they assume, he is detained: the seat of Sebin in El Helicoide, Caracas. The last attempt to visit was on Sunday, July 1st, when they brought him food.

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The case of Jaimes is not the only one that involves the violation of the right to freedom of expression on social networks. Twitter, bloggers and users of networks in general are in the crosshairs of the government

Emblematic is the case of Inés González Arraga (@InesitaTerrible) who has spent more than 400 days in prison in Sebin, after having been Arrested On October 4, 2014 in Maracaibo, he was charged with incitement to hatred, outrage of a public official and a violent outrage by tweeting about the death of the late MP Robert Serra

I will return to Venezuela when Maduro is a prisoner or dead, not before.

– Inés González Arraga (@inesitaterrible) 14 May 2018

Accused of silence?

According to judicial sources, an accusation falls on Jaimes. However, the defenders are not aware of the charges since, more than a month after being arrested and after going seven times to court, located in Los Teques, access to the record is not authorized.

be charged with security against the state when reporting the route of the presidential plane, argument invalid for their lawyers, because this type of content is the public consumption to be found on the Web.

Other Another obstacle is that neither Vivas nor Rosales are sworn in as lawyers, since this requires the presence of the detainee, a transfer that the agencies do not meet after two attempts, on June 7th and 13th. And although on June 28 they tried to agree on a new transfer, it turned out that there were few possibilities for Sebin to comply with the action , says Vivas

. that they own their defenders, but also by the obstacles that the authorities put, because, in addition, to the prisoner a public lawyer was imposed on him, although the family of Jaimes maintains the contact with the defenders of the # 39; public space

Vivas and Rosales that by these actions, Article 127 of the Code of Organic Criminal Procedure is violated, which states that the accused has the right to be assisted by a defender from the beginning of the investigation, which can be assigned by his relatives. Similarly, article 47 of the Constitution stipulates that every detained person has the right to communicate immediately with his relatives and his lawyer. So the right to due process is a dead letter.

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