Overview
- On Saturday May 23, interim president Delcy Rodríguez said more than 500 political detainees would be excarcerated in the “next hours” after cases were reviewed by a Commission of Judicial Revolution and a Program for Peace and Democratic Coexistence.
- The presidency also reiterated that 8,740 people have received some form of freedom since February under the amnesty framework, a total that mixes full pardons, conditional measures and other legal outcomes.
- Human-rights groups recorded only about 38–43 actual releases this week and maintain independent registers showing roughly 400–450 people remain detained for political reasons, and they warned that public promises raise harmful expectations for prisoners and families.
- Officials at the announcement included senior prosecutors, judges and cabinet ministers, and the government said it has increased TSJ magistrates from 20 to 32 and will begin a national consultation on June 1 to address case delay, judicial corruption and the criminalization of poverty.
- Families and monitors say transparent, case-by-case implementation and independent oversight will determine whether the measures ease political pressure or simply reshape who is released without fixing long-standing problems in prosecutions and the courts.