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Foro Penal publishes list with 78 of the 131 released prisoners announced by the Government

The Foro Penal Venezolano released a list of 78 confirmed releases out of 131 political prisoners announced by the Venezuelan government, with 53 identities still unconfirmed.

Tracked question

How many political prisoners are held, and is the trend improving? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: foro penal, political prisoners

What would settle it: Foro Penal's monthly count falling for two consecutive months with named releases.

Evidence state: insufficientas of Sep 13, 2026changed from emerging → insufficientnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Foro Penal Venezolano published a list of 78 confirmed releases out of 131 announced by the government.

53 identities remain unconfirmed.

Government official Decy Rodríguez claimed 1,046 prisoners have been released under political agreements.

The government has not published an official list of all released prisoners.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-17 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.