The Committee of Mothers for Defense of the Truth reported that since Thursday morning, 71 people have been released –65 men, three women and three teenagers– who was arrested in Venezuela in connection with the protests … after the 2024 presidential elections.
In a press release, the group clarified that the group of men were detained in the prison known as Tocorón, in the state of Aragua (north), while the women were detained at the La Crisálida Women’s Penitentiary Center, in Miranda (north), and the adolescents in La Guaira (north).
The committee celebrated these releases, even as it considered which is an “insufficient” achievementfor which he demanded “full freedom” of all post-election detainees by a general amnesty. “Injustice continues to affect hundreds of families across the country,” said the group made up of relatives of those arrested after these elections.
Last October, the mothers of the detainees indicated that the release process has remained suspended since March 2025They therefore requested a review of their children’s cases.
This Thursday’s releases were also confirmed to X by the NGO Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, made up of relatives of the detainees.
After the presidential elections of July 28, 2024, a crisis broke out in Venezuela, following the controversial re-election of Nicolas Maduro, proclaimed by the electoral body – controlled by officials linked to Chavismo -, and the complaint of “fraud” from the majority oppositionwhich claims the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia.
In this context, more than 2,400 people were arrested – most of them released from prison – and accused of being “terrorists”, according to the prosecution, although several NGOs and opposition parties defend them as innocent and assure that they are political prisoners.
Maduro’s executive assures that the country is “free of political prisoners” and that those designated as such they are imprisoned for the “commission of terrible and punishable acts”.
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