Authorities Venezuela This Saturday, 107 people detained at the height of protests following the country’s July presidential elections were released, the non-governmental organization Foro Penal reported.

According to a local human rights group, At least 1,800 arrests have been made across the country. following the July 28 election, when citizens came out to bang pots and pans and block streets over the official results that handed President Nicolas Maduro victory.

Of the total, At least 69 people are minors. 14 to 17 years old, according to the organization, which has been providing release data in various social media posts since early Saturday morning.

“Since early morning, some political prisoners have been released due to the post-election situation,” Foro Penal director Alfredo Romero initially told X. “Until now They only released 10 from Yare III,” he added.

Yare III Prison is located in the state of Miranda, in the center of the country. Romero later added that some women held at La Crisalida prison in the same region They would have been released tooalthough he did not specify how much.

A few hours later, the director of Foro Penal announced on his Instagram profile that Another 50 detainees were released from the Tocoron prison in the state of Aragua, which is also the center of the national territory.

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The publication was accompanied by a video in which shows young people walking along the road against the prison wall, and some women appear to be celebrating their release from prison.

Late in the evening, Romero reported that A total of 107 people were released.. Besides Yare III, La Crisalida and Tocorona, another prison from which some prisoners have been released is Tocuyito in the state of Carabobo, also in the center of the South American state.

Neither the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications nor the prosecutor’s office immediately responded to a request for comment on the number of publications.

One of the released youths, living in Valencia’s Carabobo, said he was eager to go home and eat his parents’ food because many times he hesitated whether to eat what he was served in prison. Another was preparing for a trip to Guatire, in Miranda, hugging his family.

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President Maduro, who claims the protests were financed by the opposition to create chaos in the country, said this week on his traditional Monday program that if authorities made any mistakes in arrests,asked the prosecutor’s office to review the cases.

Attorney General Tarek Saab said in a statement Friday that he called consider at least 225 cases detainees, without specifying details.

Saab said the protests They left 28 dead and almost 200 wounded.and about 500 public and private properties, such as schools and medical centers, were destroyed.

Activists and relatives of some detainees said their relatives did not participate in the demonstrations or only watched them from afar, which some were detained in their homes or on the street when they moved privately and were tortured in prison. (RTS)