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Lawyers said the messages were not described in judicial documents, and other evidence against her included books, letters, and public recognitions of her social work. The military court ordered her detention at National Bolivarian Intelligence Services headquarters in Caracas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHer son was not allowed into the hearing and was able to see A\u00f1ez for the first time on June 4. The lawyers were unable to see her again until June 12, the son said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA\u00f1ez spent over a month and a half inside her windowless cell, without seeing the sun, according to her son. 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