Caracas.- José Breijo, a political prisoner with Venezuelan and Uruguayan nationality who denounced the
invasion of his home after receiving a house arrest order, was transferred to a health center to treat various ailments, the Ombudsman’s Office reported this Thursday.
The institution announced the transfer to a hospital, in a publication on Instagram, that Breijo, 73 years old, after a mediation process with the justice bodies and state security entities.
Likewise, it was pointed out that the ombudswoman, Eglée González Lobato, activated a special multidisciplinary commission to provide comprehensive care to the citizen who spent two and a half years detained after taking a photo of a flag with Arabic inscriptions.
The commission, he continued, was made up of the special ombudsmen for health, housing, and the elderly, who visited Breijo at his residence, in the northeast of Caracas, with the aim of assessing his state of health and living conditions.
The Ombudsman’s Office maintained that it acted as an institutional bridge to guarantee their medical transfer “under the principles of justice and respect for human rights.”
Breijo managed to recover his house on Wednesday but without any furniture, after having reported on Tuesday that a police officer, involved in his detention more than two years ago, invaded his home.
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The septuagenarian arrived home on the weekend after having received the house arrest measure.
The citizen told EFE that at midnight on Wednesday a “distinguished” man arrived at his building while he was sleeping in the common hallway to give him the keys to his apartment.
Breijo remained detained in 2023 after taking a photograph of a flag with Arabic inscriptions and went through several prisons, the last of them Tocuyito, in Carabobo state (north), 175 kilometers from Caracas, until four days ago when he was released.
For the coordinator of the NGO Frente de Defensa Norte de Caracas, Carlos Julio Rojas, Breijo’s case is part of a State policy.
Rojas told EFE that 60% of the victims of this type of invasion in the Libertador municipality of the Venezuelan capital are elderly people.
Faced with this, he called on the ombudswoman and the attorney general, Larry Devoe, to investigate this event so that the “official assumes the consequences of his actions and receives the full weight of the law”.
