Lieutenant Colonel Igbert José Marín Chaparro, an officer of the Bolivarian National Armed Force, was arbitrarily detained on March 2, 2018, at his workplace, the “Juan Pablo Ayala” Motorized Cavalry Group, without a warrant. According to the testimony of his sister, Ignell Marín Chaparro, he remained forcibly disappeared for seven days before being brought before a court on March 9, 2018. He was subsequently sentenced to seven years and six months in prison for the crime of instigation to rebellion, in a process that his family and various human rights organizations consider devoid of evidence and plagued by violations of due process. During his imprisonment in DGCIM facilities and, since February 19, 2024, at Rodeo I, he has reported being a victim of torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, isolation, restrictions on medical care, and other severe violations of his rights, even staging hunger strikes to demand dignified conditions of detention. Although he fully completed his sentence on September 9, 2025, his release order (boleta de excarcelación) was not executed and he remains deprived of liberty under a new criminal proceeding, a situation that has been denounced as an arbitrary prolongation of his imprisonment. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has granted two precautionary measures in his favor, without the Venezuelan State having effectively complied with them.
