AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Six young people on hunger strike in a church in Caracas

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Six Venezuelan students have been on a hunger strike for two days in a Church in Caracas: as reported in a note sent to Fides, their purpose is to secure the release of peers who are still in prison. Students then ask for a definite date for parliamentary elections scheduled for this year and the intervention of the Catholic Church as a mediator, says the national director of the movimento Juventud Activa Venezuela (Javu), Jesus Gomez.
The students hope in the release of colleagues arrested in connection with anti-government protests in Venezuela during the first half of 2014 and are still in prison (see Fides 15/03/2014).
"We hope to see our protest increase every day", said the director. "We are a very serious platform of students. We have exhausted all avenues of protest under the Constitution but there are still fellow prisoners, kidnapped by the regime", he reiterated.
Meanwhile, Leopoldo Lopez, opposition leader, convened a national march for today, Saturday 30, where he will ask for the release of political prisoners and a definite date for legislative elections. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 30/05/2015)


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