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Pressure grows for release of Venezuelan political prisoners

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An NGO says hundreds of people remain behind bars despite US pressure US to speed up their release.

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A non-governmental organization said that it had verified 444 political prisoners' liberations; however, several opponents continued to be arrested.

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The NGO Foro Penal, which leads the legal defense of political prisoners in Venezuela, reported this Sunday that it has verified 44 releases for a little more than a month, when the government in charge announced a process of releases.In its X account, the president of the organization, Alfredo Romero, indicated that this number counts the releases from the past 8 January to this 15 February at 21:30 local time (1:00 GMT on the 16th).Foro Penal …

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The amnesty law puts political prisoners and repressors in the same sack. The bill is so broad that Nicolás Maduro himself, tried for narcoterrorism in a court in New York, asks for him and his wife Cilia Flores to be forgiven by the Chavista judicial system.While the ex-mandatario asks his son Nicolasito by telephone, the relatives of the political prisoners have been chained and declared on hunger strike to, with or without amnesty law, releas…

·Spain
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The country is gradually releasing prisoners after the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro by the United States on 3 January

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After more than 48 hours on hunger strike, one of the family members demanding the release of political prisoners in Zona 7 would have been decompensated. According to the account of Helicoid Reality, the woman will be taken by ambulance to a hospital center. This is the second case that occurs during the last hours. #URGENT HOOD UPDATE IN ZONE 7. At this time a second family member of political prisoners in Zona 7 is decompensated due to mor…

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Perfil broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Sunday, February 15, 2026.
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