Venezuela releases the opposition Lorent Saleh and sends him to Spain

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The Venezuelan government reported on Friday the release of former student leader Lorent Saleh, who had been in custody since September 2014 and was considered a political prisoner.
Saleh will be sent to Spain as part of a reconciliation plan promoted by the Executive of Nicolás Maduro.

The state channel VTV published a statement indicating that the Truth Commission created by the ruling National Constituent Assembly (ANC) recommended releasing the 30-year-old opponent for suicide risk.

"During the time of his arrest (Saleh) he was subjected to various psychological evaluations, manifesting violent, destructive and suicidal behaviors that endangered his personal integrity," says the letter.

Due to these circumstances, the commission "made a set of recommendations aimed at reducing the risk it could represent in these conditions" and these suggestions were accepted by the judiciary that ruled on Thursday precautionary measures.

#Now Lawyer Omar Mora Tosta: "You see how this works, you never took into account either your team of lawyers or your relatives," he says about the release and exile of Lorent Saleh # 12Oct pic.twitter.com/ESSw44OJBE

- Efecto Cocuyo (@EfectoCocuyo) October 12, 2018
"Today the aforementioned citizen moved to Spain in the company of authorities of the Government of that country in response to the request made," the statement continues.

The Government recalls in its statement that Saleh "was deprived of liberty for his participation in the commission of crimes against the constitutional order in the framework of serious actions aimed at generating violence, destabilization and alteration of peace."

Specifically in 2011, he was accused of "spreading false information that causes anxiety," after being arrested with slingshots and other materials used in protests, but escaped from Venezuela. He was arrested in Colombia and deported to Venezuela in 2014 at the decision of the then Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, and on his arrival he was accused of three other crimes.

His mother, Yamileth Saleh, went to the doors of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) in Caracas on Friday to wait for her son to leave without knowing, he told reporters, that he would be banished.

# Context Moment in which the mother of Lorent Saleh, imprisoned in the Sebin for four years, confirms that he received a call from his son, who is in Maiquetía to take a flight to Spain # 12Oct pic.twitter.com/ QoeKxIwny1

- Efecto Cocuyo (@EfectoCocuyo) October 12, 2018
The young man won in 2017 the Sakharov Prize awarded by the European Parliament. The so-called reconciliation plan promoted by Chavismo seeks to establish a formal dialogue between the government and the opposition to seek solutions to the institutional crisis the country is experiencing.

The ex-president of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is leading these efforts and has managed to bring both parties together a couple of times but the talks have ended without agreements.