‘It’s a farce’: families of Venezuela political prisoners still await their release

Relatives of political prisoners lie down in front of riot police guarding the Zone 7 detention centre in Caracas. Photograph: Ariana Cubillos/AP

In the days after Nicolás Maduro was accused of stealing Venezuela’s 2024 election, the relatives of hundreds of protesters captured during the ensuing clampdown flocked to the Zone 7 police detention centre in search of incarcerated loved ones.

Now, after the tables turned dramatically and Maduro finds himself locked up in the US, the families have returned to demand the immediate release of every last one of their country’s political prisoners.