Venezuela’s government says it is freeing large numbers of people held for political reasons after passing 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.