Overview

• Martha Lía Grajales was formally presented and charged by Attorney General Tarek William Saab with incitement to hatred, conspiracy with a foreign government and association.
• Her exact detention location is undisclosed after Venezuela’s judiciary rejected a habeas corpus petition filed by her family and legal team.
• Grajales was detained on August 8 after a peaceful protest outside the UN office in Caracas that denounced an earlier pro-government colectivos attack on mothers of political prisoners.
• UN high commissioner Volker Türk and Amnesty International have publicly demanded information on Grajales’s status and insisted on her right to counsel and family contact.
• Argentine groups including Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora and Nobel laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel have called for her immediate release and transparency from Venezuelan authorities.