Venezuela Denies Strip Search Allegations by Lilian Tintori, Rejects Paraguayan Interference
Venezuela Denies Strip Search Allegations by Lilian Tintori, Rejects Paraguayan Interference
By Lucas Koerner
Caracas, January 21, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government has rejected allegations by Lilian Tintori that she was strip searched during a visit to her husband, jailed right-wing politician Leopoldo López at Ramo Verde prison.
Tintori took to Twitter on Tuesday claiming that in the course of entering the detention facility together with Lopez’s mother, Antonieta Mendoza, she was stripped “completely naked” by guards who requested that she “open her legs various times” and “even inspected her sanitary pads”.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez, for her part, has denied the claims, calling Tintori a “professional liar” intent on “discrediting Venezuela and its institutions”.
The foreign minister cited as evidence a leaked audio recording reportedly attributed to Lopez and Tintori in which the two can be heard planning a smear campaign against the commanding officer at the facility, Col. Viloria Sosa, after the latter revoked some of the jailed politician’s privileges, including his ipod, cooking space, and his television.
In the alleged recording, Lopez instructs his wife to prepare a “communicational strategy”, accusing Sosa of “violating human rights and so on” and leaking the story to the right-wing newspapers El Nacional y La Patilla as well as Amnesty International and the OAS.
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