[translated from Spanish] The leader from Caracas Yon Goicoechea from Voluntad Popular, the party founded by Leopoldo Lopez, is imprisoned in a cell filled with excrements under torture at the headquarters of the political police (Sebin), as was denounced by the mayor of Hatillo, David Smolansky. The 31-year-old lawyer and politician was detained on September 1 and was indicted by the National Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) for allegedly having “explosive material” which has been denied by his wife, Rosaura de Goicoechea. David Smolansky assured that “Yon Goicoechea is in a very small cell filled with excrements, is isolated, has suffered psychological torture and, under these conditions, we cannot rule out that he may be under physical torture.” The mayor of Hatillo, municipality located at southeast of Caracas, reiterated that the leader Yon Goincoechea was kidnapped by the regime of Nicolas Maduro without a judicial order and was “planted with explosives when he was taking care of a family matter”. “Yon is imprisoned because in 2007 he was one of the most important leaders of the Student Movement that led that year the only electoral defeat to Hugo Chavez. He is a member of a generation that Maduro fears, that also includes Lester Toledo and Daniel Ceballos. Our generation has always believed in a peaceful, democratic and non-violent struggle” On the other hand, the director of Sebin, General Gustavo Gonzalez López, accuses Goicochea and his party members, Lester Toledo, Daniel Ceballos and Delson Guárate of “terrorists and participants of a coup” for directing plans to overthrow Maduro which “have been aborted” by the authorities. Imprisoned for his ideas, the leader of Voluntad Popular has assured that they will do all that is possible so that Yon can regain his freedom and can reunite with his wife and two children, and at the same time held the government responsible for all that can happen to Goicoechea and his family. “This is formally a dictatorship that persecutes, that imprisons, that intimidates anyone who thinks or expresses himself differently. This goes from the most visible leaders to people that protest. Just like Yon and his family suffer from injustice, today any Venezuelan can” concluded Smolansky.