US EditionVenezuela Releases at Least Nine Prisoners Including Activists
At least nine prisoners, including activist Javier Tarazona, were freed as Venezuela’s interim government proposed an amnesty law amid ongoing releases of over 300 political detainees.
- On Feb 1, at least nine Venezuelans were released from the Helicoide detention centre in Caracas, Foro Penal, local human rights group, reported.
- Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez announced a proposed 'amnesty law' last Friday, following the January 8 release policy and U.S. capture of former President Nicolas Maduro.
- Javier Tarazona, director of FundaRedes arrested in July 2021, was freed after 1,675 days, and his brother Jose Rafael Tarazona said on X, `After 1,675 days, four years and seven months, the day we've so wished for has arrived, my brother Javier Tarazona is free.`
- Rights group Foro Penal says more than 300 political prisoners were released in recent weeks and estimates over 700 remain jailed, while families of detainees say the process is too slow and demand charges be expunged.
- A 2022 United Nations report said detainees faced torture, while prominent opposition figures like Juan Pablo Guanipa, opposition politician, and Perkins Rocha, lawyer, remain detained, with Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader, advocating for releases.
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1675 days behind bars: After more than four years in prison, the well-known human rights activist Javier Tarazona has been released in Venezuela. "The truth has freed me," said Tarazona on Sunday of the news agency AFP. Among calls such as "freedom, freedom, freedom" from his followers, the 43-year-old in Caracas was received by his brother and his 71-year-old mother.Every day in custody was "too much pain for a human being," said Tarazona to AF…
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