Venezuela: relatives reported release of 71 people detained after the presidential elections in 2024 Nicolás Maduro latest

The committee held the releases although he considered it to be an “insufficient” achievement, which is why he demanded “full freedom” for all post-election detainees through a general amnesty.

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“Injustice continues to affect hundreds of families throughout the country,” stressed the group, made up of relatives of those detained after those elections.

Last October, the mothers of the detainees indicated that the release process remained suspended since March 2025so they then asked for a review of their children’s cases.

This Thursday’s releases were also confirmed in X by the NGO Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, made up of relatives of the detainees.

After the presidential elections of July 28, 2024, a crisis broke out in Venezuela, following the controversial re-election of Nicolas Maduroproclaimed by the electoral body -controlled by officials close to Chavismo-, and the complaint of “fraud” by the majority opposition, which claims the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia.

In this context, more than 2,400 people were arrested -most of them released- and accused of being “terrorists”, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, although several NGOs and opposition parties defend them as innocent and assure that they are political prisoners.

The Maduro Executive assures that the country is “free of political prisoners” and that those designated as such are imprisoned for the “commission of terrible punishable acts.”