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Dinorah Figuera demands the freedom of all political prisoners in Venezuela

Dinorah Figuera, head of the opposition delegation in dialogue with chavismo, demanded the release of all political prisoners in Venezuela after the government announced 131 releases.

Tracked question

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

linked by topic terms: political prisoners, presos politicos

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

Dinorah Figuera demanded freedom for all political prisoners via X, reacting to 131 announced releases.

The Venezuelan government stated the releases were ordered by courts at the request of the Public Ministry, following a request from the Program for Peace and Democratic Coexistence.

Foro Penal confirmed 45 releases as of Friday 7:30 p.m. and urged the process continue until no political prisoners remain.

Foro Penal counted 391 detainees as of last Monday, including 228 civilians and 163 military personnel.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-15 — 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.