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The agents forced Azuaje out of the car, handcuffed him, and took him to the headquarters of the National Bolivarian Intelligence Services (SEBIN) in Barinas, his mother said in documents filed with the Attorney General\u2019s Office and the Ombudsman Office days later. The agents did not have an arrest warrant, the documents said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe mother waited for hours outside the SEBIN headquarters and never received confirmation that her son was being held there. At approximately 3:30 a.m. on May 3, she saw a van leave the headquarters and drive to the local airport, where she saw that the agents forced Azuaje and his staffer out of the van, and beat and kicked them brutally before making them board a plane that said \u201cFANB,\u201d the abbreviation for the Venezuelan Armed Forces, she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe family later found out that he was being held at the SEBIN headquarters in Caracas thanks to information provided by a family member of another prisoner held there, Azuaje\u2019s brother in law told Human Rights. Fourty-five days after his detention, a video of Azuaje confirming that he was being held there was \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.caraotadigital.net\/nacionales\/aparecio-el-diputado-wilmer-azuaje-lleva-52-dias-detenido-en-el-sebin-video\/\u0022\u003Eleaked\u003C\/a\u003E to the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENo family member nor lawyer has been able to see Azuaje since his detention and he has not been taken in front of a judge. Azuaje\u2019s family filed an habeas corpus request before the Supreme Court, but there has been no response, according to his brother in law. Azuaje\u2019s wife has repeatedly asked authorities for help, with no results.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn June 25, Azuaje, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.el-nacional.com\/noticias\/presos-politicos\/wilmer-azuaje-unio-huelga-hambre-presos-helicoide_189626\u0022\u003Ebegan\u003C\/a\u003E a hunger strike to protest the abuses he has been suffering. Fourteen other prisoners being held at the SEBIN headquarters in Caracas, who say they have judicial release orders but intelligence agents refuse to let them go, are also carrying out a hunger strike.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet\u0022 data-lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003E\n\t\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022es\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022es\u0022\u003EWilmer Azuaje y 14 Polic\u00edas de chacao Contin\u00faan en huelga de Hambre en el helicoide Polic\u00eda de la Dictadura \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuventudLAC\u0022\u003E@JuventudLAC\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMVivancoHRW\u0022\u003E@JMVivancoHRW\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/QTnkSPnAxJ\u0022\u003Epic.twitter.com\/QTnkSPnAxJ\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\t\u2014 Roland Garc\u00eda (@Roland_Garcia) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Roland_Garcia\/status\/881329728677924864\u0022\u003EJuly 2, 2017\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cscript async src=\u0022\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null},{"command":"insert","method":"prepend","selector":".js-view-dom-id-blog_live_feed__blog_body_block__306033__en","data":"","settings":null}]