El Helicoide
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El Helicoide is a building in Caracas, Venezuela owned by the Venezuelan government and used as a facility and prison for both regular and political prisoners of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN).[1] In the shape of a three-sided pyramid, it was originally constructed as a shopping mall, but never completed.[1]
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El Helicoide | |
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Caracas, Venezuela | |
Coordinates | 10.4894°N 66.9099°W / 10.4894; -66.9099 |
Type | Office building, prison |
Site information | |
Owner | Government of Venezuela |
Operator | SEBIN |
Controlled by | Ministry of Interior, Justice and Peace |
Condition | In service |
Site history | |
Built | 1961 (1961) |
In use | 1984 (1984) |
Events | Crisis in Venezuela |
During the Nicolás Maduro administration, El Helicoide became a high-profile prison for political detainees where systemic torture and human rights violations have taken place.[1] Prisoners have reported "people being beaten, electrocuted, hung by their limbs, forced into stress positions and forced to plunge their face into a bag of faeces and breathe in".[2]