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The justice of Venezuela granted full freedom to Judge María Lourdes Afiuni after more than 15 years of trial

The Venezuelan justice system granted full freedom to judge María Lourdes Afiuni after over 15 years of judicial process and restrictions.

Judge María Lourdes Afiuni was granted full freedom after over 15 years of judicial process.

She faced detentions, substitutions, and restrictions on her rights for more than a decade.

The family stated that the closure of the case did not fully repair the suffering caused by the persecution.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Reviewed and approved by a human editor on 2026-08-08. 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.