The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office will review 225 cases of those detained in post-election protests

( Spanish) – The Public Ministry of Venezuela will review the measures imposed on 225 people detained during the protests after the controversial elections of July 28, reported the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, without specifying what measures could change.

“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.

The non-governmental organization Foro Penal Venezolano offered this Thursday a balance of the people it considers detained for political reasons in the country, in which it indicates that the figure amounts to 1,976, of which it says that 1,671 remain detained out of a total of 1,848 that They were apprehended after the last presidential elections, when thousands of people took to the streets to reject the announcement by the National Electoral Council, which proclaimed Maduro the winner without showing technical evidence. The president then accused the protesters of wanting to set fire to the streets and assured that 2,500 people were arrested.

With information from ‘s Osmary Hernández