A/HRC/45/CRP.11 274. In some cases, Government officers announced detentions as part of the Tun Tun Operation against political dissidents, first announced by Diosdado Cabello in his television programme “Con el Mazo Dando” in reference to detention of political dissidents and associates (“tun tun” mimics the sound of a knock on the door).709 On 24 June 2017, during a commemorative military event in Carabobo, President Maduro stated that all those detained during the Tun Tun Operation were being tried under military justice and would be “severely punished”.710 275. In the case investigated of Fernando Albán, who died while in custody of SEBIN, several Government authorities made televised statements concluding that he had committed suicide before investigations into his death had commenced.711 Enforced Disappearances 276. Those arrested were brought either to the SEBIN headquarters in Plaza Venezuela, Caracas or to SEBIN El Helicoide, a former shopping centre in central Caracas. In exceptional cases, detainees were brought to regional detention centres operated by SEBIN, including in Aragua state, Carabobo state and Zulia state. Once there, SEBIN officers interrogated detainees without lawyers and/or refused to allow them to contact lawyers when requested.712 277. In seven investigated cases, SEBIN officers and other authorities either denied holding the person or told family members and lawyers that they had no information. 713 In at least two cases, SEBIN officers told detainees’ mothers they should check the hospital and the morgue.714 The detainees’ whereabouts remained unknown for periods ranging from a few days (e.g. in the case of Juan Requesens), to several weeks (e.g. in the case of Gilber Caro and Pedro Jaimes Criollo). 278. The Mission has reasonable grounds to believe that some political opponents or dissidents and persons associated with them have been subject to short term enforced disappearance during the period under review. Enforced disappearance involve the deprivation of liberty against the will of the person and the involvement of state agents, whether by commission, tolerance or acquiescence, and the concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person.715 There is no minimum length of time under international human rights standards for which a detainee must be subjected to enforced disappearance in order for the violation to have occurred.716 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 See https://www.facebook.com/DenseMemesHighlyCarteluo/photos/ya-te-cayo-la-operacion-tun-tunmmgchavista-sapo/468217607005293/; YouTube Video, NTN24, “Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 301 | 13/05/2020, 13 May 2020, minute 37:15, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQXj-UDpBU4. See Bien Dateao, Todos los detenidos en la operación tun-tun están bajo justicia militar, 25 June 2017, available at: http://biendateao.com/todos-los-detenidos-en-la-operacion-tun-tun-estan-bajojusticia-militar/ See See YouTube Video, Luigini Bracci Roa, Fiscal General sobre presunto suicidio del concejal Fernando Albán, 8 October 2018, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1j1PLu4m7s&t=152s; See also Content published by Minister of People’s Power for the Interior and Justice Nestor Reverol in his official Twitter social network account, 8 October 2018, available at: https://twitter.com/VPITV/status/1049387595032158213?s=20 Including in the cases of Lorent Saleh, Gabriel Valles, Rodolfo Pedro González, Case 12: Inés González, Case 12: Lessi Marcano, Rosmit Mantilla, C2EE24 (female), C2EE25 (female), C2EE15 (female), C2EE10 (female), C2CC01, Case 4: Steyci Escalona, Juan Pedro Lares, C2EE01 (female), C2EE22 (female), C2EE23 (male), Case 7: Geraldine Chacón, Case 7: Gregory Hinds, Case 6: Victor Navarro, Case 6: C2EE09 (female), Case 12: Pedro Jaimes Criollo, Case 9: Juan Carlos Requesens, Case 10: Fernando Albán, Case 3: Gilber Caro. Including in the cases of Catalina Andarcia, Case 3: Gilber Caro, Case 12: Pedro Jaimes Criollo, Victor Ugas, Juan Pedro Lares, Gabriel Valles and Lorent Saleh. Mission Interview C2EE08 in May 2020; Mission Interview C2EE15 in July 2020. See articles 2 of ICED and of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons. In the case Yrusta v. Argentina, the CED recalled that “[…] in order to constitute an enforced disappearance, the deprivation of liberty must be followed by a refusal to acknowledge such 77