{"id":37533,"date":"2026-05-20T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/venezuela-will-release-300-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:20:46","slug":"venezuela-will-release-300-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/venezuela-will-release-300-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela will release 300 prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_6547ca5078b89c744931d8d20e2c3290.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Venezuela said Tuesday it plans to release 300 prisoners this week based on humanitarian grounds beyond the scope of a new amnesty law, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>National Assembly Speaker Jorge Rodriguez announced the decision during a session at the legislative palace in the capital Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that this decision will benefit citizens over 60 and 70, minors, pregnant women or those who are breastfeeding and those with documented medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez added that the measure is based on strict humanitarian criteria, taking into account factors such as age and chronic health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition groups and human rights organizations have argued that the trials for the prisoners were unfair and that these individuals are being held in prison for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, US President Donald Trump said Washington would secure the release of all remaining political prisoners in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to get them all out. As you know, we&#8217;ve already released a lot of political prisoners and the rest will be released as well,&#8221; Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela said Tuesday it plans to release 300 prisoners this week based on humanitarian grounds beyond the scope of a new amnesty law, Anadolu reports. National Assembly Speaker Jorge Rodriguez announced the decision during a session at the legislative palace in the capital Caracas. He stressed that this decision will benefit citizens over 60 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-37533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":11,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37535,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533\/revisions\/37535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}