“Political prisoners” in Venezuela reach 1,061, according to NGO Criminal Forum

A total of 1,061 people remained deprived of liberty in Venezuela Until February 17, considered by the NGO Criminal Forum as “political prisoners”, The organization reported on Friday.

The figure is 133 people less than a week ago, when Criminal Forum accounted for 1,194 those arrested for political implications.

Through Instagramthe NGO explained that, of the total of 1,061 detainees, 940 are men and 121 are women, among which there are 1,057 adults and four adolescents between 14 and 17 years of age, mostly arrested after the presidential elections of July 2024, in which the National Electoral Council of Venezuela Proclaimed the victory of Nicolás Maduro despite the complaints of “fraud”On the part of the opposition.

Besides, Criminal Forum He indicated that 896 of the detainees are civilians and 165 military from different bodies of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).

The NGO counts, from 2014 to date, 18,295 “political arrests“And ensures that”more than 9,000“People are still subject”arbitrarily” to “restrictive measures of your freedom”

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, more than 2,400 people were arrested for generating “violence”During the post -electoral protests, a figure greater than that registered by the Criminal Forum, which only includes reported and verified cases.

Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek William Saab -who says that in the country there are no detainees for political reasons, but detained for committing various crimes, recently reported that a total of 1,896 people have been released, with precautionary measures, a figure that Criminal Forum claims not to have confirmed.

Last Wednesday, relatives of detainees after the July elections asked, in two concentrations in the cities of Caracas and Maracaibo (west), liberation “immediate“And the review of the cases of their relatives, whose innocence defends, while the Prosecutor’s Office accuses them of”Terrorists”