Deputy Jorge Arreaza did not offer further details about the identity of the benefited soldiers or the measures imposed for their release. The parliamentarian reported that 255 people were released after the approval of the Amnesty Law nine days ago
Deputy Jorge Arreaza, who chairs the special monitoring commission for the Amnesty Law, assured this Saturday the 28th that military courts agreed to grant precautionary measures to a group of 31 members of the National Armed Forces detained for political reasons.
“We are pleased to announce that, with the noble objective of contributing to peace and national reunion, yesterday, February 27, the FANB Military Justice System agreed to grant alternative measures to 31 prosecuted military personnel, who are already free,” wrote Arreaza in his account on the social network X.
The deputy did not offer further details about the identity of the beneficiaries or the measures imposed for their release.
In another message, deleted from his social networks but which was collected by EFE agencythe parliamentarian reported that 255 people had been released after the approval of the Amnesty Law nine days ago. It has also benefited, he said, another 5,236 who had their freedoms restricted with “precautionary measures.”
In total, Deputy Arreaza summarized, 5,491 full freedoms have been granted out of the 8,707 requests that the courts have received for amnesty and which, according to the regulations themselves, must be resolved within a period of no more than 15 days.
The Criminal Forum confirmed the release of eight soldiers a day before, among them Lieutenant of Lieutenant Jesús Molina Sifontes or Captain Rocío Fernández, belonging to the Wayúu ethnic group.
Lawyers, various organizations and family members have demanded disorganization in the courts to file appeals and claim amnesty, which covers 13 “political events” that occurred between 1999 and January 2026 with an obvious exclusion of military cases.
Lawyer Luis Armando Betancourt denounced on Friday that Judge Luis Ovalles denied the dismissal of the case corresponding to the “Paramacay Case”, as the military assault on the Fort Paramacay, located in Valencia, Carabobo state, by the former captain of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Juan Carlos Caguaripano Scott in August 2017.
*Read also: The first refusal of the courts to amnesty is made public: Paramacay case
With information from EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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