Overview
- Foro Penal reported 139 verified excarcerations as of Saturday 5 p.m. local time, following the Jan. 8 announcement of planned liberations.
- The government, represented by acting president Delcy Rodríguez, claims 406 releases since December, a figure not matched by NGO tallies or published lists.
- Recent releases include foreign nationals such as Ukrainian Yevhenii Trush, Hungarian Zsuzsanna Bossanyi, and, on Sunday, Romanian citizen Cristian Cenuse, according to Foro Penal.
- Foro Penal says roughly 700 people remain jailed for political reasons, while families continue to wait outside prisons and call for transparent, official rosters of those freed.
- Opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia said his son-in-law, Rafael Tudares, was seen for 25 minutes behind glass after 374 days incommunicado and appeared visibly deteriorated, underscoring ongoing detention concerns.