The Government of Venezuela releases at least 70 people who had been detained during the post-election protests

() – At least 70 prisoners have been released in Venezuela, after the Venezuelan Public Ministry announced the review of the cases of 225 arrested on Friday, the non-governmental organization confirmed to . Venezuelan Criminal Forum. They are part of a group of people who had been detained after the elections in Venezuela on July 28.

The number of those released was updated this Saturday from 10 to 50 and then to 70, according to figures from the Penal Forum.

In addition, the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (OVP) confirmed this Saturday that there are women among those released. According to information published on their X account, the detainees were released from the La Crisálida Training Center for Female Defendants, in the state of Miranda. The OVP also reported that some of the releases have occurred in Yare, Tocorón and Tocuyito.

On Friday, the Public Ministry of Venezuela announced the review of the measures imposed on 225 people detained during the protests following the controversial July 28 elections, according to Attorney General Tarek William Saab.

“This action, which has family reunification as its center, consolidates the commitment of Venezuelan institutions to peace, justice and human rights,” he detailed this Friday at a press conference. He added that the decision was made after “exhaustive investigations based on new indications and evidentiary elements.”

Saab added that during these demonstrations 28 people died and nearly 200 were injured, and that 500 public and private property was destroyed.

On Monday, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, called on the country’s prosecutor and judges to “rectify and review” the cases of detainees in which there may have been “some type of procedural error.”

On Tuesday, relatives of detainees went to the Public Ministry for a meeting with the prosecutor in which, according to mothers of the detainees told , the possibility of establishing precautionary measures or dismissal of the case was raised.