Venezuelan 65-year-old doctor Marggie Orozco was sentenced to 30 years in prison for criticizing the regime of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in a WhatsApp voice note in 2024, Venezuelan outlets reported Monday.

Venezuelan regime courts reportedly found Orozco guilty of “treason to the fatherland, incitement to hatred, and conspiracy” for having used the WhatsApp messaging platform to send a voice note last year critical of the Maduro regime, calling for people to participate in the July 28, 2024, sham presidential election that Maduro claims he “won.”

Vente Venezuela, the country’s only mainstream center-right party led by 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, reportedly explained that Orozco simply complained about the regime’s distribution of the often hard to f

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