A/HRC/45/CRP.11 Date of detention 16 October 2016 18 October Name Disappeared (X) Deceased (XX) Héctor Óscar Rodríguez XX Antonio Miguel Aladejo XX Freddy Hernández (detained with four others, whose date of release is not clear) XX Denny Acevedo XX Anthony Vargas XX Eliézer Ramírez XX Luis Alirio Sanz XX Kendri González XX Víctor Manuel Martínez XX Yorman Mejías XX Jairo Rivas XX Reibi Torres X 1183. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, a least 25 of the 35 arrests were made without an arrest warrant.2092 One of the men later found dead had been travelling from Caucagua with his wife and two children, when soldiers stopped their bus in El Café. They reviewed his documents and took him to the command to check his criminal record. 2093 Another victim was at his mother’s home when the soldiers arrived and took him away at gunpoint. His mother said, “I had a nervous breakdown and my brother-in-law went to bring him his identification and sweater because they took him in shorts and barefoot”.2094 Another man’s mother was thrown to the floor and told, “You mothers are the accomplices; you go about aiding and abetting”.2095 1184. Approximately 20 of the 35 detainees were taken to the 323 Caribbean Battalion base temporarily installed in El Café.2096 When their relatives learned this, they arrived at the El Café base to ask for them. Soldiers explained that the detainees were being held while their judicial records were verified.2097 The Venezuelan Police Information System (SIPOL) later revealed that such verification had only been made in respect of two of the victims in October 2016.2098 1185. From 15 to 18 October 2016, family members brought the detainees food. The Public Prosecutor’s Office later retrieved a bag from one of the corpses, in which family members had purportedly delivered food to him in El Café. The bag contained fragments of written 2092 2093 2094 2095 2096 2097 2098 232 Document C4FF08 on file with the Mission. Efecto Cocuyo, Dennys Acevedo fue detenido frente a su familia en la masacre de Barlovento, 12 December 2016, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82oOMQFkPI. La Patilla, Madre de víctima de masacre de Barlovento reveló nombre del Coronel que daba las órdenes, minute 1:08, 29 November 2016, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5gvayMxxrc. The New York Times, In a brutal year in Venezuela, even crime fighters are killers, 30 December 2016, available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/world/americas/venezuela-violence.html. Document C4FF15, on file with the Mission. Document C4FF15 on file with the Mission. Ibid.