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Kennedy Tejeda

Kennedy Tejeda

2000

Nationality
Venezuela
Occupation
lawyer

Kennedy Tejeda (born January 25, 2000) is a Venezuelan lawyer and human rights activist.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Aragua Penitentiary Center
    Dates unknown

Biography

Kennedy Tejeda (born January 25, 2000) is a Venezuelan lawyer and human rights activist. He has worked as a defense attorney and member of the human rights group Foro Penal in Carabobo State. Tejeda was arrested on August 2, 2024 by security officials. Several human rights groups, including Amnesty International, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights had called for his immediate release. Tejeda was released from custody on January 25, during the 2026 political prisoner release in Venezuela.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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