Venezuelan inmates stage protest on prison roof

Prisoners in Venezuela’s western Barinas prison staged a protest on the roof of the detention center ​on Sunday, piling flaming mattresses and calling for ‌the removal of the prison’s director, Reuters writes.

“We want justice. They are shooting ​us, the guards and the wardens,” a prisoner said ​in a video shared by the Venezuelan Prison ⁠Observatory, a local NGO, on X.

Inmates said they were peacefully protesting when prison staff opened fire and left some wounded.

Prisoners called for removal of the recently appointed ​prison director Elvis Macuare Guerrero, in videos shared by the observatory. They ‌said ⁠their clothes had been taken away, they had been banned from receiving visits and pressured to sell drugs.