Iván Simonovis, the oldest political prisoner of the Chavista regime, published a message in freedom after receiving a pardon from Juan Guaidó

Iván Simonovis, commissar of the Metropolitan Police and the oldest political prisoner in Venezuela, published on Monday a photo in which he stated that he was free.

Through a message on his Twitter account, which had been inactive since 2014, the ex-commissioner said that he will be “completely free when Venezuela is too.”

In another publication, he explained that he is at liberty thanks to the efforts of many people, “but especially that of active officials who are not at the service of tyranny,” he said.

Although he did not specify where he was, sources said he was in Washington D.C. to meet some meetings. His wife, Bony Pertiñes, has German nationality.

Simonovis plans to hold a press conference in Washington.

Simonovis escaped his house arrest on May 16, under the pardon granted by the president in charge Juan Guaidó on April 30, but that had not been fulfilled. “Now he is in fair freedom,” Guaidó said then.

Simonovis was in prison since the end of 2004, when he was sentenced to 30 years in prison, indicated by the Chavista justice to be related to the violent events of April 2002.

With information from Voice of America.