{"id":265771,"date":"2026-05-25T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=265771"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:08:33","slug":"venezuelan-inmates-stage-protest-on-prison-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/265771\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan inmates stage protest on prison roof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

Inmates said they were peacefully protesting when prison staff opened fire and left some wounded.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":265680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265772,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265771\/revisions\/265772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}