The Venezuelan Prison Observatory confirmed the releases at the Training Center for Processed Women ‘A Crisálida’, also in the state of Miranda, without specifying a number
At least ten people detained during the Venezuelan post-election crisis were released this Saturday morning, according to the non-governmental organization (NGO) Fórum Penal, which anticipates more releases among the 2,400 detainees.
“Ten (releases), for now,” the director of the NGO Forum Penal, Alfredo Romero, told Agence France-Presse, after the Venezuelan Public Ministry (MP) announced, on Friday, that it would review 225 cases among the 2,400 people detained during the unrest that followed the disputed election of President Nicolás Maduro on July 28, which caused protests across the country.
Through a publication on specified, says EFE.
9:30am At this moment political prisoners begin to leave Tocorón (post-electoral situation)
— Alfredo Romero (@alfredoromero)
The Venezuelan Prison Observatory confirmed, on the same social network, the releases at the Training Center for Processed Women ‘A Crisálida’, also in the state of Miranda, without specifying a number.
The organization indicated that the freed women received precautionary measures.
The OVP added that family members of young people detained in prisons in the states of Aragua (north) and Carabobo (north), known as Tocorón and Tocuyito, are on the outskirts of these penitentiary centers awaiting possible release.
Another NGO, the Coalition for Human Rights, also spoke of “liberations” on the X social network.
“225 revisions of measures were requested for those accused of the events that shocked the country and left the unfortunate number of 28 people dead, almost 200 injured and 500 public and private properties destroyed”, announced Attorney General Tarek William Saab, at a conference of press broadcast on state television on Friday.
Without specifying whether the beneficiaries will be released, Saab said that the review related to “violent actions that occurred after the July 28 presidential elections” takes place “after exhaustive investigations based on new clues and evidence”.
“This action, which focuses on family reunification, consolidates the commitment of Venezuelan institutions to peace, justice and human rights”, he concludes.
Saab detailed that the review of cases will be carried out within the deadlines set out in current legislation and in a coordinated manner between the MP and the Judiciary.
The announcement of the case reviews comes one day after Venezuelan opposition activist Jesús Martínez Medina died, allegedly due to lack of medical care, in a prison in Anzoátegui (east) where he had been held since the disputed presidential elections.
According to Fórum Penal, 1,963 people are currently detained for political reasons in Venezuela, including 69 teenagers, since July 29, when the protests began
According to the organization, among those detained, 1,720 are men and 243 women and 1,801 are civilians and 162 military personnel, with six new arrests having been recorded in the last week.
The NGO also stated that only 148 of those detained were convicted by the courts.
Venezuela held presidential elections on July 28, after which the National Electoral Council (CNE) awarded victory to the country’s current President, Nicolas Maduro, with just over 51% of the votes, while the opposition claims that their candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia obtained almost 70% of the votes.
The Venezuelan opposition and many countries have denounced electoral fraud and demanded that voting records be presented for independent verification.
The election results were contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by the security forces, with, according to the authorities, more than 2,400 arrests, 27 deaths and 192 injuries.
