Six executives of the Houston-based CITGO Petroleum Corporation have spent more than two years in detention in Venezuela
总部位于休斯敦的CITGO石油公司的六名高管在委内瑞拉被拘留了两年多,
without any evidence of wrongdoing presented against them.
没有任何证据表明他们有不当行为。
Five of the men are U.S.citizens;
其中5人是美国公民;
the sixth is a U.S.legal permanent resident.
还有1人是美国合法永久居民。
All six men have been held without due process, in violation of Venezuela’s own laws.
这6人都是在没有正当程序的情况下被拘留的,这违反了委内瑞拉自己的法律。
No less than eighteen hearings have been scheduled and then cancelled.
至少有18场听证会被安排,然后被取消。
It looks as if the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro is trying to use these men as political pawns,
尼古拉斯·马杜罗的非法政权似乎试图利用这些人作为政治筹码,
even though they are not political figures associated with the regime or the Interim government.
尽管他们不是与该政权或临时政府有关的政治人物。
The United States is gravely concerned over the wrongful detention of the six CITGO employees – Tomeu Vadell, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Alirio Jose Zambrano, Jose Luis Zambrano, and Jose Angel Pereira.
美国严重关切六名CITGO雇员- - Tomeu Vadell、Gustavo Cardenas、Jorge Toledo、Alirio Jose Zambrano、Jose Luis Zambrano和Jose Angel Pereira - -被错误拘留。
Originally detained in November 2017, they were put under house arrest last December.
他们最初于2017年11月被拘留,去年12月被软禁。
However, in February 2020 the detained business leaders were taken from house arrest without explanation by the Maduro regime’s intelligence service, SEBIN, and sent to a SEBIN prison, where they remain.
They have only been allowed to briefly speak to their families twice since returning to prison,
自从回到监狱后,他们只被允许与家人简短交谈两次。
where they spend their days in a cell without sunlight while struggling to prevent themselves from contracting COVID-19.
在监狱里,他们在没有阳光的牢房里度过一天,同时努力防止自己感染上covid19。
State Department Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams called for an end to “this cruel and indefensible imprisonment”
美国国务院委内瑞拉问题特别代表埃利奥特·艾布拉姆斯呼吁结束“这种残忍和站不住脚的监禁”,
and condemned their “unjust treatment.”
并谴责他们的“不公平待遇”。
“They should be permitted to leave Venezuela and return to their families,” declared Special Representative Abrams.
“他们应该被允许离开委内瑞拉,回到自己的国家”特别代表艾布拉姆斯宣布。
Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens, appointed by President Trump to work to secure the release of Americans wrongfully detained or held hostage overseas,