CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) 鈥 A man detained in Venezuela during the civil unrest that followed the country鈥檚 disputed July presidential election died in custody Monday, marking the third such death reported by an inmates鈥 rights organization.
The Venezuelan Prison Observatory nongovernmental organization said the 43-year-old man had spent more than four months at a detention facility. His death came as Venezuela's top prosecutor announced that roughly a fourth of the 2,000 people detained in connection with post-election demonstrations had been granted prison release orders.
The inmates' rights group said the man was detained Aug. 1 along with his son. He was hospitalized with severe abdominal pain in December, which the organization said prison officials determined to be a 鈥渒idney colic.鈥 However, his family 鈥渞eported that medical attention was delayed and that they were not given precise information about the condition,鈥 according to the group鈥檚 post on X.
The man鈥檚 son remains in custody.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab, in a statement posted on Instagram, said that a review of cases linked to the unrest resulted in 533 release 鈥渕easures sought" by his office and "agreed鈥 upon by the judicial system. It wasn't immediately clear how many of those orders had been executed.
He did not address the in-custody deaths.
President Nicol谩s Maduro ordered the review of cases amid for the repression campaign his government unleashed after the election, including the arrests of more than 2,000 adults and minors.
Venezuela鈥檚 governing party, which controls all aspects of government, tightened the crackdown on dissent after it and the opposition both claimed to have won the July 28 presidential election, prompting nationwide protests. At least 24 people were killed in the demonstrations, and a human rights watchdog has in some of the deaths.
The United States, European Union and even some fellow leftist governments in Latin America have demanded that Venezuela鈥檚 春色直播 Electoral Council present detailed voting records, as it has in the past, to refute tally sheets presented by Maduro鈥檚 opponents showing , prevailed by a two-to-one margin.
The U.S., EU and other nations recognized Gonz谩lez as the election winner. But the former diplomat left Venezuela for exile in Spain in September after Saab鈥檚 office issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with the publishing online of the tally sheets.
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