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Family members of the military and police arrested for the capture of Maduro report torture

Family members of detained military and police officers who were captured during the January 3rd operation against Nicolás Maduro are alleging torture, including hanging, electric shocks, and other abusive practices.

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

linked by topic terms: detenidos

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

Families of detained military/police officers (Yury Burgos, Jeimy Guzmán, Marli Morillo) allege torture including hanging, electric shocks, and other abuses

Approximately 30 scientific police agents were detained for allegedly refusing to alter evidence at Fuerte Tiuna

Former Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López was removed from his position and appointed to Agriculture

Colonel Manuel Oria Arteaga and his wife Yury Burgos are among those detained

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-09-11 — 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.