CARACAS — More than 700 people arrested during protests that erupted after Venezuela's disputed presidential election have been transferred to maximum security prisons, a human rights group said Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
CARACAS — More than 700 people arrested during protests that erupted after Venezuela 's disputed presidential election have been transferred to maximum security prisons, a human rights group said Saturday .The detainees, who had been held at police stations around the country, were transferred over the past week to two notorious prisons that were previously controlled by gangs, the Venezuela n Prisons Observatory said.
The leftist Maduro government, brushing off accusations of authoritarianism, has resisted intense international pressure to release vote tally numbers to back up its claim of victory.The United States, the European Union and several Latin American countries have refused to recognize Maduro as having won without seeing detailed voting results.Violence that accompanied the protests left 27 people dead and 192 injured.
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