The key figure of Venezuelan opposition in the talks with the Government, Dinorah Figuera, has said that new releases will soon be carried out of people imprisoned for political reasons.
As she has detailed, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, brother of the acting president, informed her in the framework of the dialogue table that more releases will take place.
The opposition leader revealed this information during an interview with journalist David Placer from Madrid. "We held a meeting not long ago, two days, with Jorge Rodríguez and he said that we are on the verge of an announcement, of telling the country, the release of new political prisoners," she said.
For Figuera, the release of inmates is a personal "moral commitment," since she suffered the death of her daughter's godfather, the activist Fernando Albán, who died in custody in 2018 without the circumstances being clarified, as she has related.
For this reason, Figuera has held meetings with family members of political prisoners and with former detainees. "We want to consolidate that all political prisoners are released. We at the table have been incisive, persistent so that an announcement is made," she stressed.
The human rights organization Foro Penal counts 322 political prisoners as of October 26, despite the entry into force of the Amnesty Law.
Figuera has indicated that said Amnesty Law has facilitated the release of almost 9,000 people, but that the remaining cases "were not contemplated, or better said, were expressly excluded in the Amnesty Law." "There are other spaces where they can be channeled," she added.