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At least 10 people detained in the middle protests after the presidential elections in July Venezuela They were released on Saturday, the NGO said. Crime forum.

According to a local human rights group, there were at least 1800 arrests following the July 28 election, when citizens came out to bang pots and pans and block streets over the official results declared by the winner. Nicolas Maduro.

At least 69 of them minors from 14 to 17 years oldAccording to NGOs.

“From early morning some releases coming out political prisoners due to the post-election situation,” Foro Penal director Alfredo Romero said early this morning on Channel X. “So far they have only released 10 of the Yare III,” he added.

Yare III Prison It is located in State B, in the center of the country.

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An hour later, Romero reported on the same social network that there was still a release in another prison. “From Las Crisalidas Women’s Prison. “They also released some political prisoners.”

President Maduro, who claims that the protests were financed by the opposition to create chaos in the countrysaid this week on his traditional Monday program that if authorities had made a mistake in arresting him, he would asked the prosecutor’s office to review the cases.

Prosecutor General Tarek Saab This was stated in a statement on Friday, which called for review at least 225 cases of detaineeswithout going into details.

Saab says protests have stopped 28 dead and almost 200 woundedas well as some 500 public and private personal belongings were destroyed.such as schools and health centers.

Activists and relatives of some detainees said that their relatives did not participate in the demonstrations or only watched them from afar, that some were detained in their homes or on the street while traveling privately and who suffered torture in prison.

Reuters