Venezuela has begun releasing hundreds of people detained for political reasons under a new amnesty law.

Venezuela has passed a new amnesty law, but some families of political detainees and prisoners' rights groups are reacting with mixed feelings.

Venezuela’s leading prisoner rights organization says that dozens of prisoners were released over the weekend.

The son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo González has been released after more than a year in detention.

Edilson Torres has been buried in his hometown after dying in a Venezuelan prison.